UGC NET Study Material for Library and Information Science

Q.American Library Associaiton

… Answer is 1876)
Chicago

Q. Library Associaiton (UK)

… 1977
London

Q. SPECIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION(SLA)US

… 1909
Washington

Q. Indian Library Association

… 1933
New Delhi

Q. INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION CENTERS(IASLIC

… 1955
CalCutta

Q. INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS (IFLA)

… 1927
The Hauge

Q. COMMONWEALTH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (COMLA)

… 1972
Kingston

Q. ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT(ASLIB)

… 1924
London

Q.INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES(IATLIS)

… 1969

Q.Chain Index

… S.R. Ranganathan

Q.PRECIS

… DEREK AUSTIN

Q.POPSI

… G.BHATTACHARYA

Q.UNITERM INDEXING

… M.TAUBE

Q.KEYWORD INDEXING

… H.P.LUHN

Q.SUBJECT INDEXING

… M.E. SEARS

Q.SLIC INDEXING

… J.R. SHARP

Q.AUTOMATIC INDEXING

… HERBERT OHLMAN

Q.THESAURAS

… P.M. ROGET

Q.UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION

… 1905

Q.DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION

… 1876

Q.EXPANSIVE CLASSIFICATION

… 1891

Q.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION

… 1904

Q.SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION

… 1906

Q.COLON CLASSIFICATION

… 1933

Q.BIBLIOGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION

… 1935

Q.RIDERS INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION

… 1961

Q.BROAD SYSTEM OF ORDERING

… 1978

Q.SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

… F.W. TAYLOR

Q. MANAGEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

… PETER DRUCKER

Q. HIERARCHY OF NEED THEORY

… A.MASLAW

Q.THEORY X AND THEORY Y

… D. MCGREGOR

Q.MOTIVATION HYGIEN APPROACH

… F. HERZBERG

Q.SOCIAL REALATION OF MANAGEMENT

… ELTON MAYO

Q.What is INTERNET?

… Ans: Internet is the world’s largest computer network, the “network of networks”. Scattered all over the world

Q.When was the INTERNET Created?

… Ans: It was created thirty six years ago as a project of U.S Department of Defense,

Q.A binding document signed by all users that explains the rules of INTERNET use at an institution. Name it

… Ans: Acceptable user policy (AUP)

Q.What is gopher?

… Ans: It is a protocol designed to search, retrieve and display documents from remote site on the Internet)

Q.It is an Internet search tool that has the capability of searching many databases at one time. Name it:

… Ans: Wide area information service (WAIS)

Q.What is FTP (file transfer protocol?)

… Ans: The medium that allows transferring of files between computers on the net using an FTP program or via Netscape

Q.What is E-Journal?

… Ans:It is an electronics publications, typically found in academic circles

Q.What is NNTP?

… Ans:Network News Transport Protocol-This is used to distribute network news

Q.Name the security feature that allows access to information on an individual basis:

… Ans:Authentication

Q.MIPS is an acronym for:

… Ans:Millions of instructions per second

Q.The duplicate copy of data/program on a separate storage medium is called:

… Ans:Back up

Q.Which is standard internet protocol for distributing E-Mail?

… Ans:SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

Q.Who invented the modem?

… Ans:AT&T Information System, USA

Q.The computer generated environment is called:

… Ans:Virtual

Q.Who coined the term hypertext in 1965?

… Ans:Ted Nelson

Q.Which protocol provides basis for the net?

… Ans:Internet Protocol –IP

Q.Unicode ?

… Ans:UNICODE stands for Universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This encoding standard provides the basis for processing,storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and ICT protocols. It uses two bytes or 16 bits to code each character.

Q.What is firewall

… Ans:A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. All messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.

Q.What is Webinar?

… Ans:Webinar is a short for Web-based seminar, a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web.A key feature of a Webinar is its interactive elements — the ability to give, receive and discuss information. Contrast with Webcast, in which the data transmission is one way and does not allow interaction between the presenter and the audience.

Q.What is router?

… Ans:-A device that forwards data packets along networks. A router is connected to at least two networks, commonly two LANs or WANs or a LAN and its ISP??s network. Routers are located at gateways, the places where two or more networks connect.Routers use headers and forwarding tables to determine the best path for forwarding the packets, and they use protocols such as ICMP to communicate with each other and configure the best route between any two hosts.

Q.What is Delphi Technique ?

… Ans:-Delphi technique helps managers and decision makers to make better forecasts and advice. This method recognises human judgments as legitimate and makes useful inputs in generating forecasts and also that the judgment of a number of informed people is likely to be better than the judgment of a single individual who may be misinformed or highly biased. Thus, the Delphi technique is a way of allowing only those interactions to occur that are likely to improve the quality of a forecast or decision.The Delphi Technique has been widely used to generate forecasts in technology, education and other fields. It may also be possible to apply this technique as an evaluation technique in case a situation demands

Q.Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

… Ans:-The Program (or Project) Evaluation and Review Technique, commonly abbreviated PERT,
· is a statistical tool, used in project management
· is designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project
·developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s
·it is commonly used in conjunction with the critical path method or CPM.
·Program Evaluation and Review Technique (code-named PERT) is applied as a decision-making
·tool designed to save time in achieving end-objectives, and is of particular interest to thoseengaged in research and development programs for which time is a critical factor.

Q.Critical path method (CPM)

… Ans:-The critical path method (CPM) is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities
·It is an important tool for effective project management.
·The critical path method (CPM) is a project modeling technique developed in the late
·1950s by Morgan R. Walker of DuPont and James E. Kelley, Jr. of Remington RandCPM calculates the longest path of planned activities to the end of the project, and the earliest
·and latest that each activity can start and finish without making the project longerIn project management, a critical path is the sequence of
· project network activities which add upto the longest overall duration

Q.Shannon–Weaver model

… Ans:- Shannon–Weaver model of communication has been called the “mother of all models.
It embodies the concepts of information source,message, transmitter, signal, channel, noise, receiver,In 1948 Claude Elwood Shannon published A Mathematical Theory of Communication article in two parts in the July and October numbers of the Bell System Technical Journal.
The book co-authored with Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, reprints Shannon’s 1948 article and Weaver’s popularization of it
Shannon’s theory is used more literally and is referred to as Shannon theory, or information theoryShannon’s formula is where C is channel capacity measured in bits/second, W is the bandwidth in Hz, S is the signal level in watts across the bandwidth W, and N is the noise power in watts in the bandwidth W.

Q.Electronic mail?

… Ans:- commonly known as email or e-mail .An email message consists of three components, the message envelope, the message header, and the message body.

Q.What is WorldCat?

… Ans:- WorldCat is a global network of library content and services that uses the Web to let your institution be more connected, more open and more productive.
WorldCat is a union catalog
WorldCat was founded by Fred Kilgour in 1967
It is the world’s largest bibliographic database
In 2003, OCLC began the “Open WorldCat” pilot programOCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries

Q.N-LIST?

… Ans:- An Initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Under the National Mission on Education through ICT
NLIST abbreviated as “National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content “Besides 12B/2F colleges, NLIST Programme is now opened to Non -Aided Colleges (except Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing).
being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges.
The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutionsServer(s) is installed at the INFLIBNET Centre

Q.Library Management Systems KOHA?

… Ans:- KOHAKoha is the first free and open source software Integrated Library System (ILS),
Koha was developed in 1999 by Katipo Communications in New Zealand
Koha is distributed under the Free Software General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later

Q.NewGenLib

… Ans:-NewGenLib is an integrated library management systemdeveloped by Verus Solutions Pvt Ltd. Domain expertise is provided by Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management in Hyderabad, India.
NewGenLib version 1.0 was released in March 2005
NewGenLib was declared Open Source Software under GNU GPL Licence
NewGenLib uses UNICODE 3.0

Q.Greenstone

… Ans:-Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project in 2000
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distrubting digital library collection

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