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Welcome to your WBSET 2023 SOLVED PAPER MCQ QUIZ

Which of the following is true about CCO?

(a) CCO really eliminates all copyright and related rights.
(b) When applying CCO then the copyright holder needs to surrender his/her copyright.
(c) Patent rights not included inCCO.
(d) No rights reserved.

(a), (b), (c) are correct

(b), (c), (d) are correct

(a), (c), (d) are correct

All of the above are correct

Match the following :

List-1
(a) Declarative knowledge
(b) Semantic knowledge
(c) Tacit knowledge
(d) Meta knowledge

List-IT
(1) It is highly organised, chunked knowledge that resides mainly in long-term memory.
(ii) It is the knowledge about which information others need and how one's own knowledge can be utilized accordingly. It resides in transactive memory.
(iii) It usually gets embedded in human mind through experience.
(iv) It is shallow knowledge that can be readily recalled, often resides in short-term memory.

(iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(ii) ( i) (iii) (iv)

Web of Science core collection includes :

(a) Book Citation Index
(b) Conference Proceedings Citation Index
(c) Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemics
(d) Emerging Sources Citation Index

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

All of the above are correct

Which of the following are resource sharing services of OCLC?

(a) Tipasa
(b) Worldshare
(c) Syndeo
(d) First Search

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

(a) and (c) are correct

(b), (c) and (d) are correct

All of the above are correct

What are the Discovery, usage and impact services provided by Jisc?

CORE

IRUS-UK

OpenDOAR

All of the above

|dentify the FRBR 'work'.:

Tagore's 'Gora'

Tapan Sinha's 'Kabuliwala' is based on Tagore's short story

English translation of 'Geetanjali'

‘Raktakarabi' of Tagore, performed by Nandikar in 1982

Which of the following are online tools for cataloguing of books?

(a) Libib
(b) Bookbuddy
(c) Shelfari
(d) Scoop

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

(a) and (b) are correct

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

(a), (c) and (d) are correct

Match the following MARC-21 tags with their description:

List-I
(a) 9XX-999
(b) 80X-830
(c) 05X-08X
(d) 001-008
List-II
(i) Control Fields
(ii) Classification and Call number
(iii) Local information
(iv) Series added entry

(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

(iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

Arrange the following according to their ascending scales of ordinal values according to CCC.

(a) Comma
(b) Word in italics
(c) Bracket
(d) Full stop

(a), (b), (c), (d)

(c), (a), (d), (b)

(d), (a), (c), (b)

(b), (c), (a), (d)

10.

Match the following Anteriorising Common Isolates with respective notations:

List-I List-II
(a) Administration Report (i) t
(b) Commission Report (ii) x
(c) Bibliography (iii) a
(d) Collected works (iv) r
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

11.

Which of the following problems are true about Semantic Web?

(a) Uncommon tags are used, no Standardization.
(b) Lack of common ontology.
(c) Multilingualism can create problems.
(d) Practical implementation of Semantic Web is difficult task.

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

(a) and (b) are correct

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

All of the above

12.

Which of the following are true about LibQual' ?

(a) LibQual is a web-based survey tool.
(b) Libraries use to solicit, track, understand and act upon users opinions on service quality.
(c) This service is offered by American Library Association.
(d) This service is offered by Association of Research Libraries.
(e) This is a Web-based reference service.

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

(a) and (b) are correct

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

(a), (d) and (e) are correct

13.

13. Assertion

(A): The Good Offices Committee is a voluntary organisation formed to establish
uniform terms of book supplies to libraries.

Reason (R): The Committee meets at regular intervals to decide upon the conversion rates of foreign currencies to be applied in the case of books and periodicals and the rate of discount admissible to libraries.

Both (A) and (R) are true

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Both (A) and (R) are false

14.

1 Geop byte is equal to?

1024 Brono Bytes

1024 Zetta Bytes

1024 Exa Bytes

1024 Peta Bytes

15.

Assertion

(A): SMTP transfers the mail from sender's computer to the mail box present on
receiver's mail server.
Reason (R): POP3 allows to retrieve and organise mails from mail box on receiver's mail server to receiver's computer.

Both (A) and (R) are true

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Both (A) and (R) are false

16.

Which of the following are true about application of '‘Big Data' in a Library?

(a) Data mining and text analytics for taking decisions.
(b) User behaviour only.
(c) Developing library collection.
(d) Tracking the use of library materials.

(a) and (b) are correct

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

All of the above are correct

17.

Assertion

(A): In a typical print model, the library purchases the journals and retains them
for the duration of the contract but also after the contract expires.
Reason (R): In order the retain access to journals that were released during the term of a license for digital electronic journals, the library must obtain perpetual access rights.

Both (A) and (R) are true

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Both (A) and (R) are false

18.

Building of a green library involves which of the following options:

(a) Minimize electricity consumption.
(b) Maximize use of renewable sources like air, sunlight and wood.
(c) Strategic placing of windows which provide natural light and may help with heating or cooling costs.
(d) Develop and use sustainable energy efficient resources in construction, maintenance and overall life of the structure.

(a) and (b)

(a), (c) and (d)

(b), (c) and (d)

(a), (b), (c) and (d)

19.

The relationship between h - index and total number of citations (C), as developed by Yong is represented as:

h=54*C

h=0.54 * C1

h=5.4* C 1/2

h=0-54*C1/2

20.

The p-index, introduced by G. Prathap was based on:

Bradford's Law

Lotka's Law

Ohm's Law

Pareto's Law

21.

Assertion

(A): The Normalized Impact Factor of a journal clearly gives the indication about ranking in the world in terms of Impact Factor.
Reason (R): Normalized Impact Factor does not deal with subject; Impact Factor deals with subject.

Both (A) and (R) are true

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Both (A) and (R) are false

22.

Under the RTI Act, 2005, which person cannot submit a complaint to the Central Information Commission or State Information Commission, as the case may be?

Who approaches directly to CIC or SIC without approaching CPIO or SPIO as the case may be.

Who believes that she/he has been given incomplete, misleading or false information under this Act.

Who has been refused access to any information related under this Act.

Who has been required to pay an amount of fees which she/he considers unreasonable.

23.

Match the following:

List-I
(a) Price's Law
(b) Mathew effect
(c) Matilda effect
(d) Sengupta's Law
List-II
(i) Correction as Bradford's Law
(ii) Describes how eminent scientists will often get more credit than a comparatively less known researchers
(iii) If 100 papers are written by 25 authors, five authors will have contributed 50 papers.
(iv) Bias against acknowledging the achievements of woman scientists.

(iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

24.

'R'is a programming language (for Statistical Computing and Graphic Support) was designed by:

Brendon Each

Ross lhaka and Robert Gentleman

Guido Van Rossum and Peter Ekke

Andres Hejlsberg

25.

Of the four indices, h-index, e-index, R-index and a-index, which of the following inequalities is correct?

h>e>R>a

h<e<R<a

h>e and R<a

26.

Match the following:

List-I
(a) f(r) =kIr
(b)yx1ly=C
(c) F(X) = a+b*log(X)
(d) 80-20
List-II
(i) Brookes
(ii) Zipf
(ii1) Pareto
(iv) Lotka

(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)

27.

The book ‘Diffusion of Innovation' was written by?

Francis Bacon

Everett M. Rogers

F. W. Lancaster

H. P. Luhn

28.

Page Rank algorithm was developed at?

University of Sheffield

Cornell University

Stanford University

University of Southampton

29.

Which one of the Creative Commons Licenses are considered for commercial use?

BY-ND

Y-NC-ND

BY-NC

Y-NC

30.

Which is the recently developed form of copyright licensing for digital resources?

Indian Copyright Act, 2012

Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998

Creative Commons

Marrakesh Treaty

31.

The concept of 'Social Epistemology" and its applications in information science was introduced and promulgated by?

Jonathan Furner

B. Frohmann

Luciano Floridi

J. H. Shera

32.

Which one of the following applications is an example of Expert System?

Biometric

Ask the Librarian

QR Code

All of the above

33.

In folksonomy, users?

add public tag to micro-documents only

add public tag to online items

add tag to print items

Do not add tags

34.

Analytical entries are prepared to:

analyse the subject content of a book

include subject analysis in descriptive catalogue

provide access for part of an item

provide access to index

35.

A chain with a unitary class as its last link is known as:

Primary chain

Complete chain

Pseudo chain

Frozen chain

36.

Which of the following tag is allotted for MARC 21 Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name?

650

653

651

654

37.

Choose the appropriate title for the class number according to UDC: 32(540-33-22) :

Politics in rural districts of West Bengal

Politics in villages of Bihar

Politics in urban areas of West Bengal

Politics in districts of Bihar

38.

An array of classes admitting interpolation is Known as:

Closed array

Open array

Discontinuous array

Continuous array

39.

Which of the following is an essential process in which the intelligent methods are applied to extract data pattern?

Warehousing

Data Mining

Text Mining

Data Selection

40.

What is a Decision Tree'?

Machine learning algorithm to sort objects that belongs to the same group

Data mining procedure to sort data

A method to find data

Learning procedure used for classification and regression

41.

The full form of 'ETL' in the context of Data Warehouse' is:

Extraction, Tools and Learning

Evaluation, Telecommunication and Linking

Extraction, Transformation and Loading

Estimation, Transfer and Loading

42.

What is the term used for describing the judgemental or common sense part of problem solving?

Heuristic

Critical

Value based

Analytical

43.

There are four numbers in a set. The mean of the three smallest numbers is 9, whereas the mean of the three largest one is 11. What is the range of the data set?

44.

Consider a hypothesis Ho where do = 5 against H1 where d1 > 5. The test is:

Right tailed

Left tailed

Centre tailed

Cross tailed

45.

Mention the percentage of credits of MOOCsS available on SWAYAM may be adopted and offered in an Indian University.

46.

Five Laws of Media and Information Literacy are brought out by?

UNESCO

INSPEC

OCLC

SRELS

47.

Who publishes the LISA (Library and Information Science Abstract)?

EBSCO

IASLIC

ProQuest

Elsevier

48.

ROAD, the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources is a service offered by ?

DOAJ

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

ISSN International Centre

OCLC

49.

Match the following:

List-I
(a) ShodhGanga
(b) Inflibnet learning Management Service
(c) e-Gyankosh
(d) Remote Access through INFEED
List-II
(1) Moodle
(ii) DSpace
(iii) Shibboleth

ii, ii, iii, i

ii, i, ii, iii

i, ii, i, iii

ii, i, iii, ii

50.

'Shodh Chakra' is an initiative of:

DELNET

INFLIBNET

NDLI

ICSSR

51.

Identify the odd one out from the following:

INDEST

N-LIST

Shodh-Shuddhi

UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium

52.

The 'Delplus’ software is developed by:

NIC

DESIDOC

DELNET

INFLIBNET

53.

The new GSDL released in 2021 is:

2.10

3.10

4.10

1.10

54.

Which of the following journals are covered in SCOPUS Database?

(a) Annals of Library and Information Studies
(b) World Digital Libraries
(c) DESIDOC Journal of Information Technoly
(d) SRELS Journal of Information Management

(2) and (d)

(a) and (c)

(b) and (d)

55.

How do you know if the article is freely available on Google Scholar?

There will be an ‘Available’ button on the page

All papers are available to Download’

It will be displayed on the right side of the search result with the file format

There will be a list of papers available full text at the bottom of the page

56.

'Humbul Humanities Hub' - an online subject gateway on humanities based at:

Cambridge University

Oxford University

Stanford University

University of Southampton

57.

Assertion

(A): The copyright laws prevent unauthorised reproduction of any literary, musical,
artistic work.:
Reason (R): The copyright is not infringed by making or supplying a copy of a part of a work, if the copy is made or supplied by or on behalf of a librarian.

(A) is true but (R) is false

(A) is true, but (R) is partially false

Both (A) and (R) are true

Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

58.

What are the characteristics of Information Encountering (IE)' as identified by Sandra Erdelez?

(a) User
(b) Environment
(c) Information
(d) Feedback

(a), (b) and (d) are correct

(a), (c) and (d) are correct

(a), (b) and (c) are correct

(b) and (d) are correct

59.

In 'Colon Classification’ the title ‘Medical Jurisprudence’ can be classified and sharpened with the help of-

Subject Device

Alphabetical Device

Classic Device

Enumerative Device

60.

The principle of Later-in-Time is one of the principles of?

Fundamental Categories

Helpful Sequence

Facet Sequence

Array-Isolate Sequence

61.

Arrange the following categories of Controlled Vocabularies in increasing order of flexibility for post- coordination:

(a) Classification schemes
(b) Ontologies
(c) Subject Heading Lists
(d) Thesauri

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(d) (c) (b) (a)

(a) (c) (d) (b)

62.

Data stored in OpenDOAR is available over the?

Sherpa API

OAI-PMH API

EBSCO API

OCLC API

63.

Blooms Taxonomy! is associated with?

Curricula Development

Learning Assessment

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Acquisition

64.

An Apograph is?

a copy or transcript of a manuscript

an early printed book before 1501

an official book listing government officials

65.

Assertion

(A): A library needs to generate a satisfied customer base which is supportiveof library programmes:
Reason (R): If a library's resources and services are measured upto customers expectations then repeat use cannot be ensured.

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Both (A) and (R) are true

Both (A) and (R) are false

66.

Who categorized the user studies into the following three categories?

(a) Behaviour Studies
(b) Use Studies
(c) Information Flow Studies

Maurice B Line

Menzel

Cronin

Voigt

67.

Match the following:

List-I List-II
(a) ICRISAT (i) Oceanography
(b) NIO (ii) Crop Research
(c) CDRI (iii) Astrophysics
(d) lA (iv) Botany
(e) INBRI (v) Drugs

(ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i)

(ii) (i) (v) (iii) (iv)

(iii) (ii) (v) (i) (iv)

(iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (v)

68.

Which of the following statements are correct about INFLIBNET's INFOPORT service?

(a) Subject is categorised as per DDC.
(b) Subject is categorised as per CC.
(c) Contains personal webpages of experts.
(d) Supports open access.

Statement (a) and (b) are true.

Statement (c) and (d) are true.

Statement (b) and (c) are true.

Statement (d) and (a) are true

69.

Match the following:

List-I
a) Instagram
(b) Facetime
(c) Tumblr
(d) Picasa
List-II
(i) Facebook
(ii) Apple
(iii) Google
(iv) Yahoo

(iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

(i) (ii) (iv) (iii)

(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

70.

Mark the correct arrangements of description as per AACR-IL.

TITLE, STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY, PLACE. PUBLISHER, YEAR, PAGINATION, SIZE, SERIES, NOTES, ISBN

TITLE, STATEMENT OF PLACE, RESPONSIBILITY, PUBLISHER, YEAR, SIZE, PAGINATION, SERIES, NOTES, ISBN

TITLE, STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY, PUBLISHER, PLACE, YEAR, PAGINATION, SIZE, SERIES, NOTES, ISBN

TITLE, STATEMENT RESPONSIBILITY, OF PLACE, PUBLISHER, YEAR, PAGINATION, SIZE, SERIES, ISBN, NOTES

71.

The same number or number group iS used to represent Same isolate idea(s) across different subject is?

Systematic Mnemonics

Alphabetical Mnemonics

Scheduled Mnemonics

Seminal Mnemonics

72.

Method for tapping tacit knowledge in an organisation is-

In-house lectures

E-Learning

Document Management

Knowledge Mapping

73.

In Colon Classification which indicator digit has been used for indicating interpolation?

Comma

Hyphen

Asterisks

Ampersand

74.

Three pillars of Enterprise Knowledge Management are:

Book, Staff and User

People, Process and Technology

Technology, Staff and User

Process, Technology and Book

75.

The fungicide used in fumigation chamber:

Camphor

Cloves

Ethanol

Thymol

76.

In context to modulation, PCM stands for?

Pulse Code Modulation

Phase Control Modulation

Popular Code Modulation

Penultimate Code Modulation

77.

The variance is:

difference between the highest and lowest

squared deviation from the mean

standard deviation

average value of the distribution

78.

The sequential steps for digitization is?

Scanning > Indexing > Storage>Retrieval

Scanning > Storage > Indexing > Retrieval

Scanning > Storage > Retrieval > Indexing

Scanning > Retrieval > Storage > Indexing

79.

Which of the following iS a measure of dispersion?

Geometric mean

Median

Mode

Root means square deviation

80.

Prof. Deborah Lupton is associated with:

Info-phobia

Information Behaviour

Information Literacy

Digital Sociology

81.

The arrangement of the 'text' part of the Roget's Thesaurus is akin to that of?

an Index

a Classification System

an Ontology

a Dictionary

82.

Which of the following has been chosen as theme of International Open Access Week, 2022?

Open with purpose taking action to build Structural Equity and Inclusion

Open for climate justice

Open for whom? Equity in open Access

It matters how we open knowledge: Building Structural Equity

83.

Which of the following are the ethical principles of CILIP? Choose from the codes given below:

(a) Preservation
(b) Conservation
(c) Intellectual Freedom
(d) Impartiality

(a), (b) and (c)

(b), (c) and (d)

(a), (c) and (d)

(a), (b) and (d)

84.

Match the items:

List-I
(IFLA strategy 2019-24)
(a) Strategic Direction 1
(b) Strategic Direction 2
(c) Strategic Direction 3
(d) Strategic Direction 4
List-II (themes)
(i) Strengthen the global voice of libraries
(ii) Optimise our organisations
(iii) Inspire and enhance professional practice
(iv) Connect and empower the fields

(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(i) (iii) (iv) (ii)

(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

85.

The International Who's Who is published by?

Routledge

Columbia University Press

McMillan

Harper Collins

86.

‘Specifications’ belong to which category of the documents?

Conventional documents

Non-Conventional documents

Neo-Conventional documents

Meta documents

87.

Match the following:

List-I List-II
(a) STAIRS (i) DARPA
(b) SMART (ii) Blair and Maron
(c) CRANFIELD (iii) Gerald Salton
(d) TREC (iv) Cyril W.C. Cleverdon

(i) (iii) (ii) (i)

(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

(iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

88.

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World' (2nd edition) has been edited by?

Soul B. Cohen

Robert J. Elster

Paul Kelly

James Middleton

89.

The Waterfall Model is associated with:

Total Quality Management

Knowledge Management

Project Management

Management Information System

90.

The tools to create Augmented Reality Application in libraries are?

(a) Vuforia
(b) Wikitude
(c) Daqri
(d) Google Lens

(a), (b) and (c)

(a), (b) and (d)

(a), (c) and (d)

91.

Match the following:

List-I List-II
(a) Quillbot (i) Plagiarism Detection Software
(b) Drillbit (ii) Paraphrasing tool
(c) Refread (iii) Reference Management for web
(d) Paperpile (iv) Access to subscribed open access resources

(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(ii) (i) (iv) (iii)

(iii) (i) (iv) (ii)

92.

The Article and Schedule of Union List of Constitution of India, under which National Library has been accorded status of Special Institution?

Article 61, 8th Schedule

Article 62, 7th Schedule

Article 61, 7th Schedule

Article 62, 8th Schedule

93.

Arrange the components of Knowledge Management according to American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC):

(a) Process
(b) People
(c) Strategy
(d) Technology

(c), (d), (a), (b)

(d), (c), (b), (a)

(b), (a), (d), (c)

(a), (b), (c), (d)

94.

Newspaper Navigator is a product of:

The British Library

Library of Congress

Library and Archives of Japan

National Library of Australia

95.

National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) categories metadata into following types?

Relational, Bibliographical and Descriptive

Descriptive, Administrative and Structural

Informative, Structural and Relational

Associative, Technical and Administrative

96.

In Dublin Core Schema, which of the following elements does not have any qualifier?

Title

Subject

Creator

Descriptors

97.

Which one of the following is not a Moodle philosophy?

Constructionism

Constructivism

Social Constructivism

Positivism

98.

“Free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data" is the declaration of?

Knime Software

Rapid Miner Software

Word Stat Software

OpenRefine software

99.

NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) platform works with human language data on?

R Studio

Perl

Python

Ruby on Rails

100.

_ is an open source software for managing the bibliographic reference?

AIGAION

Bigeye

Profusion

Infomine

101.

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