Library and Information Sciences Top MCQ's

Q No 1. Which Library was established under the first two Ptolemies early in the third century BC ?

(A) Alexandria Library
(B) Patriarchal Library
(C) Macedonia Library
(D) Pregame Library
Answer: (A) Alexandria Library

Q No 2. Most commonly used script in the world is ?

(A) Cyrillic
(B) Tibetan
(C) Hebrew
(D) Roman
Answer: (D) Roman

Q No 3. When the Asa Don Dickinson, an American Librarian started Library Science certificate course at university level in the subcontinent in Lahore ?

(A) 1858
(B) 1885
(C) 1915
(D) 1935
Answer: (C) 1915
Q No 4. How many branches PLA has ?

(A) Four
(B) Five
(C) Six
(D) Seven
Answer: (B) Five
Q No 5. The British Library is at ?

(A) Boston
(B) Edinburgh
(C) London
(D) Oxford
Answer: (C) London

Q No 6. The Library of Congress Classification system divides human knowledge into ?

(A) 20 major classes
(B) 21 major classes
(C) 25 major classes
(D) 30 major classes
Answer: (B) 21 major classes

Q No 7. The Head Office of UNESCO located at ?

(A) Paris, France
(B) Netherlands, in The Hague
(C) London
(D) England
Answer: (A) Paris, France

Q No 8. ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 from ?

(A) January, 2007
(B) January, 2008
(C) January, 2006
(D) January, 2005
Answer: (A) January, 2007

Q No 9. JSTOR is an online system for archiving and accessing academic journals. It is located in ?

(A) Germany
(B) UK
(C) USA
(D) Budapest
Answer: (C) USA


Q No 10.‘Fair use’ is a term most relevant to ?

(A) Intellectual Property Rights
(B) Books borrowed for home reading
(C) Copyright
(D) Use of reference books
Answer: (C) Copyright

Q No 11. Year book are also known as ?

(A) Hand book
(B) Annual
(C) Directory
(D) Dictionary
Answer: (B) Annual

Q No 12. What is Trade bibliography ?

(A) List of Author Bibliography
(B) List of Special Bibliography
(C) List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher
(D) List of books of trade Library
Answer: (C) List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher

Q No 13. What is the meaning of E-Documents ?

(A) All Documents other than printed
(B) Non-Paper documents
(C) In electronic form such as Cassettes, CD-ROM, etc.
(D) Audio visual tools
Answer: (D) Audio visual tools

Q No 14. What are non- documentary sources ?

(A) Which are in printed form
(B) Which are in not printed form
(C) Which are not documents
(D) None of these
Answer: (B) Which are in not printed form

Q No 15. The first law of library science enunciated by Ranganathan is ?

(A) Library is a growing organism
(B) Books are for use
(C) Every book its reader
(D) Save the time of the reader
Answer: (B) Books are for use

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