ISBN registration agency in India is:

Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency. In India, ISBN registration is handled by the Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN. So option A is correct.

A co-operative arrangement among a group of libraries that co-ordinate resources on behalf of its members on mutual agreement is called:

Library Consortium. A library consortium is a cooperative group of libraries that share and coordinate resources and services by mutual agreement.

Which leading research discovery tool and comprehensive online database provides access exclusively to chemical literature?

SciFinder. SciFinder is a specialized discovery tool for chemical and related scientific literature. The other options are broader multidisciplinary platforms.

The term “Half Life” in the context of literary growth is used to indicate:

Rate of obsolescence. In bibliometrics, half-life indicates how quickly literature becomes outdated or obsolete; therefore it is linked with the rate of obsolescence.

Raw, unevaluated, unprocessed and unorganized facts are known as:

Data. Data are raw facts. When data are processed and organized, they become information.

“A library is a growing organism.” Which law of library science is this?

Fifth Law. Ranganathan’s Fifth Law of Library Science states: “The library is a growing organism.”

Who proposed the Big-Six information literacy skills?

M. B. Eisenberg and R. E. Berkowitz. The Big6 model was developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz for information problem-solving and information literacy.

A website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals is:

DOAJ. DOAJ means Directory of Open Access Journals. It lists open access journals. DOAB is for open access books.

An online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world is:

SHERPA/RoMEO. SHERPA/RoMEO provides information about publishers’ open access archiving and copyright policies.

“Annals of Library and Information Studies” is published by:

NIScPR. Annals of Library and Information Studies is published by NIScPR, formerly known through the CSIR information science publication tradition.

The international standard ISO-9660 is applicable to:

Standard for encoding data on CD-ROM. ISO 9660 specifies the file system/format for data stored on CD-ROMs.

Which one of the following relates to charges to authors of scholarly articles during the publication process?

Article Processing Charge. Article Processing Charge, or APC, is the fee commonly charged to authors for publishing an article, especially in some open access models.

An open-source platform “Drupal” is a:

Content Management System. Drupal is an open-source Content Management System used for creating and managing websites.

Universal Decimal Classification is an example of:

Almost faceted scheme. UDC is generally treated as an analytico-synthetic or almost-faceted classification scheme.

The terms Dissection, Denudation, Lamination and Loose Assemblage introduced by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan are related to:

Mode of formation of subjects. These terms describe different modes by which subjects are formed in Ranganathan’s theory of classification.

The concept of profile matching is used in:

Selective Dissemination of Information. In SDI services, a user profile is matched with new information/resources to send relevant updates to the user.

RSS feeds are an application of:

Web 2.0. RSS feeds are commonly associated with Web 2.0 because they support syndication and automatic updates from websites.

h10 citation index indicates:

An author has 10 journal publications with 10 citations each. The h10-index counts publications with at least 10 citations. In the given options, option B is the closest correct meaning.

While digitizing a document, the method used to make the scanned document into a text-readable document is:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR converts images of text, such as scanned pages, into machine-readable text.

The technology which enables use of infrastructure and applications via internet, without installing and maintaining them on-premises, is:

Cloud Computing. Cloud computing delivers infrastructure, platforms, and applications over the internet without local installation and maintenance.

In Universal Decimal Classification system, what symbol is used to link related classes?

: (colon). In UDC, the colon sign “:” is used as a relation symbol to connect related classes.

The Ministry of Education, Government of India has announced an initiative through which all people in India can have access to national and international research publications. Which is it?

ONOS. ONOS means One Nation One Subscription, an initiative intended to provide broad access to scholarly resources.

Familiarizing every call number on the shelf and ensuring that it is in proper order is called:

Shelf Reading. Shelf reading means checking books on shelves to ensure that call numbers are in correct sequence and order.

Which of the following is not an HTML tag?

. , , and are valid HTML form tags. is not a standard HTML tag.

Tagged Image File Format. TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format, a common image file format.

Which of the following is not an internet browser?

Adobe browser. Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Safari are browsers. “Adobe browser” is not a standard web browser name.

Which of the following is an open-source software?

LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite. Photoshop, Windows, and MS Office are proprietary products.

Which of the following is a correct format for an email address?

name@website.com. A basic email address has the form local-part@domain, such as name@website.com.

The speed of processor of a computer is measured in:

Gigahertz. Processor clock speed is usually measured in Hertz, commonly Gigahertz (GHz).

Alexa is a virtual digital assistant developed by:

Amazon. Alexa is Amazon’s virtual digital assistant.

Find the odd one out from the following:

DSpace. Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley are reference management tools. DSpace is repository software, so it is the odd one out.

In the context of electronic resources, COUNTER is associated with:

Usage statistics. COUNTER provides standards for reporting usage statistics of electronic resources.

Library which takes into account environmental, economic, and social sustainability is called:

Green Library. A green library focuses on sustainability, including environmental responsibility and efficient resource use.

Arrange the words in a meaningful sequence: 1. Doctor, 2. Fever, 3. Prescribe, 4. Diagnose, 5. Medicine

2, 1, 4, 3, 5. First fever occurs, then the patient visits a doctor, the doctor diagnoses, prescribes, and finally medicine is taken: 2 → 1 → 4 → 3 → 5.

A metric for measuring journal impact in Scopus is:

CiteScore. CiteScore is a Scopus-based journal metric. Impact Factor is mainly associated with Journal Citation Reports.

Artificial Intelligence is associated with which generation of computing?

5th. The fifth generation of computers is associated with artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems.

If Rs. 500 grows to Rs. 540 in two years, find the interest percentage per annum.

4%. Interest = 540 − 500 = 40 for 2 years, so yearly interest = 20. Rate = 20/500 × 100 = 4% per annum.

“Indian Citation Index” (ICI) is developed by:

Knowledge Foundation. Indian Citation Index is developed by The Knowledge Foundation. Therefore option D is correct.

Predatory journals are journals which:

Charge APC for publishing the manuscript but do not undertake proper peer review activities. Predatory journals usually collect publication charges but do not follow proper editorial and peer-review standards.

A type of compilation made by libraries giving coverage to sources of information on a particular subject is:

Bibliography. A bibliography is a list or compilation of sources on a particular subject or topic.

Which among the following is like an address of the book and helps users identify where the book is located in the library?

Call Number. A call number works like the address of a book on the shelf, combining classification and book identification information.

Which is the new cataloguing standard to AACR2?

Resource Description and Access. Resource Description and Access (RDA) was developed as the successor to AACR2.

Which one of the following is not a software package typically used for creating institutional repositories for scholarly published digital content?

Libsys. Greenstone, EPrints, and DSpace are used for digital libraries/repositories. Libsys is mainly library management software.

In which of the following is the term “Truncation” used?

Search formulation. Truncation is a search technique used in search formulation to retrieve word variants using symbols such as *.

In which year was the first edition of Dewey Decimal Classification published?

1876. The first edition of Dewey Decimal Classification was published in 1876.

A practice in library evaluation to remove titles which are no longer useful for users or are mutilated, etc., is called:

Weeding. Weeding is the removal of outdated, damaged, little-used, or unsuitable materials from the library collection.

The episodic model of information seeking behaviour was developed by:

Nicholas J. Belkin. Nicholas J. Belkin is associated with the episodic model of information-seeking behaviour.

Which among the following does not belong to the “Seven lamps of conduct” for library professionals?

Assessment of the authors. Impersonal book selection, service before self, and scholarship are included in the Seven Lamps of Conduct. Assessment of the authors is not one of them.

The term used for material produced outside traditional publishing and distribution channels, and often not well represented in indexing databases, is:

Grey literature. Grey literature includes reports, theses, conference papers, and other materials outside normal commercial publishing channels.

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. OAI-PMH means Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

A user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories by the use of metadata is called:

Folksonomy. Folksonomy is user-generated classification using freely chosen tags or metadata.

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