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Whether you are studying, doing research, working professional, this is the place for you to develop a sound knowledge of Library and Information Science. For librarians, catalogers, (M.LIB & B.LIB) & Ph.D. students, researchers in LIS professionals.

Question 1: 5th edition of CC published in

A) 1939

B) 1957

C) 1950

D) 1952

Explanation: Correct (B) first edition of Colon Classification (CC) was published in 1933. The fifth edition, published in 1957, made several changes, including the introduction of the second level of space and time facets and the replacement of Greek letters with empty and emptying digits. The third edition appeared in 1950, the fourth in 1952, the sixth in 1960, and the seventh in 1987.

Question 2: Components of Call number are

A) Class Number and Book Number 

B) Class Number and Index Number

C) Class Number, Book Number and Collection Number

D) Class Number and Accession Number

Explanation: Correct (C) library call number, used to locate books, typically consists of a classification number indicating subject a cutter number (identifying author or title), and potentially a date or volume number.

Question 3: Who publishes Annals of Library Science and documentation?

A) ILA 

B) DRTC

C) IASLIC

D) INSDOC

Explanation: Correct (D) Journal was originally called Annals of Library Science when it was launched in 1954 by the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC). The journal is published quarterly

Question 4: DDC's latest edition is 23rd published in

A) 2008

B) 2009

C) 2011

D) 2015

Explanation: Correct (C) (23rd) edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) was published in 2011.

Question 5:In DDC 23rd edition, which table is for "National and Ethnic Groups"?

A) Table 2

B)Table 3

C) Table 4

D) Table 5

Explanation: Correct (D) In the 23rd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Table 5 is dedicated to National and Ethnic Groups. Table 1: Standard Subdivisions Table 2: Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography Table 3: Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms Table 4: Subdivisions of Individual Languages and Language Familie Table 5: Ethnic and National Groups Table 6: Languages.

Question 6: In UDC, Common auxiliaries of time represented in notation as

A) Equal

B) Point naught

C) Hyphen

D) Inverted commas

Explanation: Correct (D) In UDC, common auxiliaries of time are represented in notation as "..." (double quotation marks).

Question 7: In LCC, Class Z represents

A) Technology

B) Language and Literature

C) Bibliography and Library Science

D) History and Geography

Explanation: Correct (C) In the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), Class Z represents Bibliography, Library Science, and Information Resources (General)

Question 8: Library Classification, "it is the translation of name of the subject of a book into a preferred artificial language of ordinal numbers" said by?

A) S.R.Ranganathan

B) H.E.Bliss

C) Melvil Dewey

D) W.C.B.Sayers

Explanation: Correct (A) Library classification is the translation of the name of the specific subject of a book into a preferred artificial language of ordinal numbers  is attributed to S. R. Ranganathan.

Question 9: Method of OSMOSIS is related with:

A) Method of Circulation

B) Indexing Technique

C) Method of Cataloguing

D) Reclassification

Explanation: Correct (D) Osmosis, a natural transport process, is the movement of water molecules across a semi permeable membrane from an area of high water concentration (low solute concentration) to an area of low water concentration (high solute concentration).

Question 10: Please recognized the below mentioned symbol which is commonly used in Colon Classification as well as DDC ?

A) (;) Semicolon

B) (.) Dot Sign

C) (=) Equal Sign

D) (') Inverted Comma

Explanation: Correct (B) Symbols commonly used in both Colon Classification (CC) and Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) are numbers (0-9), letters (A-Z, a-z), and punctuation marks (e.g., colon, semicolon, comma, dot).

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