ISI Associate Scientist A Library Question Paper

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata Associate Scientist Library Sample Paper Section II
Sample Questions on Library for Online Test Scientis ISI Kolkata

Note – For each of the questions there are four suggested answers, of which only one is correct. You will score
4 marks for each correctly answered question,
0 mark for each incorrectly answered questions, and
1 mark for each unattempted question.

Identify the books written by S.R. Ranganathan
(I) Philosophy of library classification
(II) Prolegomena to library classification
(III) Manual of library classification and shelf arrangement
(IV) Library book selection
(a) I,II,III
(b) II, III, IV
(c) I, III, IV
(d) I, II, IV

Identify from the following the correct statements regarding Indian National Bibliography (INB)
(I) Contains biblographic records of publications in 14 languages of India
(II) Entries in the main part of the INB are arranged in alphabetical order
(III) Contains records of books received by the National Library, Kolkata under the provision of the Delivery of Books Act, 1954.
(IV) Library of Congress Subject Heading list is followed to prepare subject headings
(a) I and II are correct
(b) III and IV are correct
(c) I and III are correct
(d) II and IV are correct

Technological Gatekeeper is
(I) An informal channel
(II) A term coined by T.J. allen
(III) A term coined by Derek De J. Solla Price
(IV) A formal channel
(a) I and II are correct
(b) I and III are correct
(c) II and III are correct
(d) III and IV are correct

An entry in an Abstracting Journal consists of
(a) Bibliographic citation
(b) An abstract and bibliographic citation
(c) Annotation
(d) Bibliographic citation, an abstract and initials of the abstractor

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias are considered as documents
(a) Conventional
(b) Primary
(c) Secondary
(d) Tertiary

“A Library Catalogue is a list of books which is arranged on some definite plan” defined by
(a) J.D. Brown
(b) C.A. Cutter
(c) S.R. Ranganathan
(d) Margaret Mann