
Notes for Library Employment
Notes are given for Library tests which are best for Army, Navy and PAF librarian tests. Moreover, these tests are very helpful for the tests of library in FPSC Exam, PPSC Exam, KPPSC, BPSC, and SPSC.
Important Meanings-Abbreviations for Library Test
□ Scopus: Abstract and citation database of research literature
□ J-Store (1995): Journal Storage
□ Emeralds: Full text Journal Publishers
□ Science Direct: Full-text scientific database
□ ERIC: Education Resources Information Center, is the world’s largest digital library of education literature
□ J-Gate (2001): J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature
□ Project MUSE (1993): Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers
□ EBSCO: Reference Databases
□ Pubmed: Citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
□ IndMed: A Bibliographic Database of Indian Biomedical Literature is an indexing of medical and other biomedical journals from India not cover in Medline
□ INIS: The INIS Database, contains over 3 million bibliographic records
□ LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists
□ Genamics JournalSeek: Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 95320 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
□ Econlit: The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations
□ REPEC: Research Papers in economics. Collaborative volunteer effort to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The database contains information on more than 585,000 items
□ OCLC Worldcat: A global catalog of library collections.
□ Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act. 1948
□ Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act. 1960
□ Karnataka Public Library Act 1965
□ Maharashtra Public Libraries Act 1967
□ West Bengal Public Libraries Act 1979
□ Manipur Public Libraries Act 1988
□ Kerala Public Libraries Act 1989
□ Haryana Public Libraries Act 1989
□ Mizoram Public Libraries Act 1993
□ Goa Public Libraries Act 1993
□ Gujarat Public Libraries Act 2002
□ Orissa Public Library Act 2002
□ Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act, 2005.
□ Rajasthan Public Libraries Act 2006
□ Delhi Public Library 1951
□ DRTC, Bangalore 1962
□ Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation 1972
□ Connemara Public Library 1890
□ Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library 1891
□ Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune 1917
□ Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh 1774
□ State Lenin Library, Moscow 1862
□ National Library of India- 1835
□ Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France) 1440
□ National Diet Library, Japan 1948
□ National Library, Germany 1912
□ Library of Congress, USA 1800
□ Library Association (UK)-1877 now Known as Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (From 2002) 1877 (now name changed in 2002 as CILIP)
□ American Library Association- 1876
□ Association of Special Libraries and Information Beureaux –ASLIB 1926
□ IFLA-1929 1929 UBC-1974, UAP-1976
□ Special Library Association(SLA) 1909
□ FID 1982
□ UNESCO 1945
□ India Library Association 1933
□ IASLIC 1955
□ RRRLF 1972
□ DDC by Melvil Dewey 1876
□ Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter- 1879
□ Library of Congress Classification 1902
□ Subject Classification by J. D. Brown 1906
□ Colon Classification 1933
□ Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss 1935
□ International Classification by F. Rider 1961.
□ Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898
□ Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923
□ AACR first published 1908
□ MARC 1966
□ AACR-I 1967
□ CCF 1972
□ ISBD 1974
□ UNIMARC 1977
□ AACR-II 1978
□ Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) 1967
□ Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN 1974
□ Joint Academic Network (JANET)
□ Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) 1997
□ China Academic Library & Information System 1998
□ NICNET 1977
□ CALIBNET 1986
□ ERNET 1986
□ INFLIBNET 1988
□ DELNE 1992
□ ADINET 1993
□ MALIBNET 1993
□ MYLIBNET 1994
□ UGC INFONET 2002
□ HELINET 2003
□ Asia and Pacific Information Network (APIN)
□ Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC) 1986
□ Global Network for Education in Journalism 1999
□ Orbicom 1994
□ UNESCO Network for Associated Library (UNAL)
□ UNISIST Programme 1971
□ CDS/ISIS 1985
□ WINISIS Distributed
□ SOUL 2000
□ GREENSTONE 1997
□ DSPACE 2002
□ KOHA 2000
□ NEWGENLIB 2007
□ EPRINTS 2000
□ Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane 1950
□ Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats 1963
□ PRECIS-Derek Austin 1974
□ POPSI- G. Bhattacharya 1964
□ Kaisers systematic Indexing 1911
□ UNITERM- Martimer Taube 1953
□ Science Citation Index 1974
□ Social Science Citation Index 1973
□ Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1978
□ Roget’s Thesaurus 1852
□ Andhra Pradesh Library Association, 1914
□ Maharashtra Library Association, 1921
□ Bengal Library Association, 1925
□ Madras Library Association, 1928
□ Karnataka Library Association, 1929
□ Punjab Library Association, 1929
□ Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti, 1931
□ Bihar Library Association, 1936
□ Assam Library Association, 1938
□ Utkal Library Association, 1944
□ Kerala Library Association, 1945
□ Hyderabad Library Association, 1951
□ U.P.Library Association, 1951
□ Delhi Library Association, 1953
□ Gujarat library Association, 1953
□ Madhya Bharat Library Association, 1957
□ Gomantak Library Association, 1961
□ Rajasthan Library Association, 1962
□ Jammu & Kashmir Library Association, 1966
□ Tripura Library Association, 1967
□ Manipur Library Association, 1987
□ Mizoram Library Association, 1987
□ Meghalaya Library Association, 1994
□ Nagaland Library Association, 1996
□ A&I – Abstracting and Indexing
□ CRG – Classification Research Group
□ AACR2 – Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition
□ AALL – American Association of Law Libraries
□ AASL – American Association of School Librarians
□ ABAA – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
□ ACRL – Association of College & Research Libraries
□ AGRIS – Agricultural Information System
□ AHIP – Academy of Health Information Professionals
□ AICTE – All India Council for Technical Education
□ ALA – American Library Association
□ ALC – Americans for Libraries Council
□ ALCTS – Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.
□ ALISE – Association for Library and Information Science Education
□ ALISE – Association for Library and Information Science Education
□ ALOHA – Astronomy Librarians of Hawaii Association
□ ALP – Advancement for Librarianship
□ ANSI – American National Standards Institute
□ APA – American Psychological Association
□ ARL – Association of Research Libraries
□ ARLIS/ANZ – Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand
□ ARLIS/NA – Art Libraries Society of North America
□ ARLIS/UK & Ireland – Arts Libraries Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland
□ ARMA International – Association of Records Managers and Administrators International
□ ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange
□ ASIS – American Society for Information Science (and Technology)
□ ASTED – Association pour l’avancement des Sciences et Tcchniques de la Documentation
□ AV – Audio-Visual
□ BALID – Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists
□ BCI – Bar Council of India
□ BFM – Bibliographic File Maintenance
□ BI – Bibliographic Instruction
□ BIBCO – the monographic BIBliographic record COmponent of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
□ BIP – Books In Print
□ BL – British Library
□ BLISc – Bachelor of Library and Information Science
□ BnF – Bibliothèque nationale de France
□ BONET – Bombay Library Network
□ BPL – Boston Public Library
□ CAHSL – Connecticut Association of Health Sciences Librarians
□ CALIBNET – Calcutta Network
□ CAPS – Content, Abstract and Photocopy Service (INSDOC)
□ CDA – Communications Decency Act
□ CDC – Curriculum Development Committee
□ CD-R – Compact Disc-Recordable
□ CD-ROM – Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
□ CD-RW – Compact Disc ReWritable
□ CDS – Cataloging Distribution Service (Library of Congress)
□ CDS/ISIS – Computerised Documentation Services Intregated Set of Information System
□ CEP – Continuing Education Programme
□ CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
□ CIP – Cataloging-In-Publication
□ CLA – Canadian Library Association
□ CLIR – Council on Library & Information Resources
□ CLISc – Certificate Course in Library and Information Science
□ CLS – Certificate in Library Science
□ CNI – Coalition for Networked Information
□ COMLA – Common Welth Library Association
□ CONSER – Cooperative ONline SERials (PCC component)
□ CPSO – Cataloging Policy and Support Office (Library of Congress)
□ CSIR – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
□ CV – Curriculum Vitae
□ DCM Z1 – Descriptive Cataloging Manual Z1 (“Yellow Pages”)
□ DDB – die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library)
□ DDC – Dewey Decimal Classification
□ DDS – Document Delivery Service
□ DEC – Distance Education Council
□ DELNET – Delhi Library Network
□ DESIDOC – Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Center
□ DEVSIS – Development Science Information System
□ DIRKS – Design and Implementation of Recordkeeping Systems
□ DLIS – Department of Library and Information Science
□ DLSc – Diploma in Library Science
□ DMCA – Digital Millennium Copyright Act
□ DOI – Digital Object Identifier
□ DRC – Data Referral Centra
□ DRM – Digital Rights Management
□ DRTC – Documentation Research and Training Center
□ DVD – Digital Video Disc
□ ENVIS – Environment Information System
□ ERIC – Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse
□ FDLP – Federal Depotisitory Library Program
□ FRBR – Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records
□ GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
□ GIS – Geographic Information Systems
□ GPO – Government Printing Office
□ GUI – Graphical User Interface
□ HR – Human Resources
□ HTML – HyperText Markup Language
□ HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol
□ HTTPS – HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
□ IALL – International Association of Law Libraries
□ IAMSLIC – International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers
□ IASLIC – Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers
□ IATLIS – Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science
□ IB – Information Behavior
□ ICSSR – Indian Council of Social Science Research
□ ICT – Information and Communication Technology
□ IE – Internet Explorer
□ IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
□ IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
□ III – Innovative Interfaces, Incorporated
□ IIT – Indian Institute of Technology
□ ILA – Indian Library Association
□ ILL – InterLibrary loan
□ IMLS – Institute for Museum and Library Services
□ INFLIBNET – Information and Library Network (UGC)
□ INSDOC – Indian National Scientific Documentation Center
□ ISBD – International Standard Bibliographic Description
□ ISBN – International Standard Book Number
□ ISC – Information for Social Change (Advocacy group : United Kingdom)
□ ISP – Internet Service Provider
□ ISSN – International Standard Serial Number
□ IT – Information Technology
□ JAKE – Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment
□ JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
□ JSTOR – Journal STORage
□ KWIC – KeyWord In Context
□ KWOC – KeyWord Out of Context
□ LAB – Library Association of Bangladesh
□ LAN – Local Area Network
□ LC – Library of Congress
□ LCC – Library of Congress Classification
□ LCCN – Library of Congress Control Number
□ LCRI – Library of Congress Rule Interpretation(s)
□ LCSH – Library of Congress Subject Heading
□ LCSH – Library of Congress Subject Headings, aka “The Big Red Books”
□ LFF – LIbrarians For Fairnesss
□ LIS – Library and Information Science
□ LIS – Library and Information Science (common abbreviation)
□ LISA – Library and Information Science Abstracts
□ LISA – Library and Information Services in Astronomy
□ LISBd – Librarians and Information Scientists, Bangladesh
□ LITA – Library and Information Technology Association
□ LOCKSS – Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
□ LTTE – Letter To The Editor
□ MALS – Master of Arts, Librarianship
□ MARC – MAchine Readable Cataloging
□ MARC – Machine Readable Catalogue
□ MARC 21 Machine Readable Catalogue 21 Century
□ MCI – Medical Council of India
□ Medical Library Association
□ MFHD – MARC Format for Holdings Data
□ MIS – Master of Information Science
□ MLA
□ MLA – Modern Library Association
□ MLIS – Master of Library and Information Science
□ MLS – Master of Library Science
□ Modern Language Association
□ MSLIS – Master of Science in Library and Information Science
□ Music Library Association
□ NAAC – National Assessment and Accreditation Council
□ NACO – the Name Authority COmponent of the PCC
□ NAMTC – National Association of Media & Technology Centers
□ NAR – Name Authority Record
□ NASIG – North American Serials Interest Group
□ NASSDOC – National Social Science Documentation Center
□ NCLIS – National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
□ NCTE – National Council for Teachers Education
□ ND – No Date
□ NISC – National Information Services Corporation
□ NISCAIR – National Institute for Science Communication and Information Resources
□ NISO – National Information Standards Organization
□ NLA – Nevada Library Association
□ NN/LM – National Network of Libraries of Medicine
□ NTIS – National Technical Information Service
□ NUC National Union Catalog
□ NYPL – New York Public Library
□ OCLC – Online Computer Library Center
□ ODLIS – Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
□ OED – Oxford English Dictionary
□ OP – Out of Print
□ OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog
□ OS – Out of Stock
□ PC – Personal Computer
□ PCC – Program for Cooperative Cataloging (Library of Congress)
□ PDF – Portable Document Format
□ PGDIT – Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
□ PGDLAN – Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking
□ PLA – Pakistan Library Association
□ PLG – Progressive Librarians Guild (Advocacy group : chiefly United States)
□ PMOLIB – Prime Minister’s Office Library
□ PO – Purchase Order
□ PPL – Peace Palace Library
□ RA – Readers’ Advisory
□ RAK – Regeln für Alphabetische Katalogisierung
□ RDA – Resource Description and Access
□ RDF – Resource Description Framework
□ RFID – Radio Frequency IDentification
□ RFK – Regeln für die Formalkatalogisierung
□ RFP – Request For Proposal
□ RIM – Records and Information Management
□ RLG – Research Libraries Group
□ RRRLF – Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation
□ RSS – Multiple, depending on the version
□ RSWK – Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog
□ RUSA – Reference and Users Services Association
□ SAA – Society of American Archivists
□ SACO – the Subject Authority COmponent of the PCC
□ SCCTP – Serial Cataloging Cooperative Training Program
□ SCM – Subject Cataloging Manual (Library of Congress)
□ SIC code – Standard Industrial Classification code
□ SLA – Special Libraries Association
□ SMS reference – Short Message Service reference
□ SPARC – Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
□ SRRT – Social Responsibilities Round Table (American Library Association)
□ SSL – Secure sockets layer
□ SuDoc – Superintendent of Documents
□ t.p. – Title page
□ TOC – Table Of Contents
□ UDC – Universal Decimal Classification
□ UGC – University Grants Commission
□ URI – Unifrom Resource Indicator
□ URL – Uniform Resource Locator
□ USA PATRIOT Act – Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
□ USB – Universal Serial Bus
□ VHS – Video Home System
□ VLOG – Video (web-)log.
□ VPN – Virtual Private Network
□ WAN – Wide Area Network
□ WLIC – World Library and Information Congress
□ WWW – World Wide Web
□ Z39.50
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Important Terms & Dates for Librarian Tests
1. IPO : United Nations
2. Digital watermarking is part of : Steganography
3. Information Ice berg : 1/3 Visible 2/3 Non- Visible
4. A Proxy server is used for : Share Internet Links
5. Library warrant : W.Hulme
6. Barcode system uses one of the following technologies : Pattern Recognition
7. Information observed and reported by some one else is know as : Empirical Information
8. Brain Storming : Alex Osborn
9. IV volume of 20th DDC : Relative Index
10. Data Ware house is : An Electronic Repository Of Organizational Data
11. World Intellectual property day : A prinl 26 , 2009
12. Cyberspace is not wires cables and microwave but : A Physical Place
13. The book “ S.R. Ranganathan : Pragmatic Philosophy Of Information Science A
Personal Biography”
14. Perochial Libraries : Thomas Bray
15. TQM needs : Concept Oriented Management
16. Acronym : Donald Davinson
17. First Public Library Act : Madras
18. already the world is well into the third great phase of Human history – the information age
articulated by : Alvin Toffler
19. Buffer overflow : An Attack By Computer Hacker
20. An equivalent of Is 14000 standards is : ISO 9000
21. In flow chat Activity is represented by : Rectangle
22. One of the following is not a cause for obsolescence of published literature : No Longer
Valid
23. Gantt chat : Horizontal Bar Chat
24. M in five fundamental categories ( PMEST) : Matter
25. Value added information model for evaluating information systems and centres was provided
by : Robert S Taylor
26. Soul 2.0 is complaint to : Ncip2.0
27. OSI Stands for : Open System Interconnection
28. ISO standard for Dublic core Metadata elements set is : Iso 15836 : 2009
29. Seymour Lubetzky was associated with : Catalogue Codes
30. VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege
31. The largest unit of a database : A File
32. The term “ Exponential Growth refers to : Geometrical Progression
33. The exhaustiveness of indexing system will : Increase Precision
34. ILA : 1933
35. DELNET : Wan
36. Recommended 6.5% of univ budget : Radhakrishna Committee
37. Second Generation computers is : Transistor
38. Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge : T.S. Eliot
39. Bradford formulated the law of scatter : 1948
40. Saraswathi mahal library : Maraja Sarafoji
41. Invisible colleges : Derek De Solla Price
42. Half life of information is : Rate Of Obsolescence Of Information
43. First university to introduced M.Phil. Program is LIS 1980 : University Of Madras
44. Not a image format : Uap
45. KWIC index was : Hp Luhn
46. Graphical representation of data on y-axis is : Quadrant
47. Z39.50 : Client Server Protocol
48. Phenomena of literature on a subject appearing in periodical devoted to other subject is know
as : Scatter
49. Which of five laws of library science strongly advocated adv of open access : First Law
50. BIOS : Basic Input/ Output System
51. Punjab Library Primer : A D Dickinson
52. Classification : Grouping And Arrangement Of Entities
53. LIS – FORUM : Ncsi
54. Starvation policy : Revision Of Udc
55. Five Laws of library science : 1931
56. Documentation was brought : S C Bradford
57. Wisdom of mass principle : Wikipedia
58. Thesaurofacet : Jean Aitchison
59. Central tendency : Average
60. Atom index : Inis
61. Free floating subdivisions : Library Of Congress Subject Headings
62. Shanon and weaver theory of information is based on : Mathematical Theory
63. Bodlein library is the university library of : Oxford University
64. A patent may be granted for a new useful and non obvious : Innovation
65. Facebook is a : Social Networking Site
66. World cat is : Oclc
67. Direct method of electro static copying is : Xerography
68. Focus is a : Facet
69. Encyclopedia of library and information science is published by : Marcel Dekkav
70. Dare : Undp
71. RSS in internet terminology means : Rich Site Summary
72. The organizational structure is determined by : Span Of Control
73. See also cross reference normally represent : Associate Relations
74. Research done to find a solution for an immediate problem is known as : Applied
Research
75. The term Informatics was coined by : Otto Nache
76. Laissez – faire is : Allow To Act
77. The diffusion of innovation and its acceptance normally follows : S-Shaped Curve
78. The periodical “ college and research Libraries is published by : Ala
79. First Ph.d in the LIS in India : 1958
80. John cotton Dana : Ala
81. Indian Reference sources is : J.S.Sharma
82. You tube is associated with : Google
83. Computer virus is a : Computer Programme
84. Lotka laws is concerned with : Productivity Of Authors ( Dought)
85. Library pathfinders : Referral Service
86. Charles ammi cutter : Rules For Dictionary Catalogue
87. Coden is : Sericals
88. Method of experimental enquiry was advocated by : J S Mills
89. Truncation device is used to improve : Precision ( Dought)
90. Maximum storage space is available on : Hard Disk
91. Demand Theory of Books selection was coined by : L R Mccolvin
92. The Hyderabad public libraries Act was : 1960 ( Actualy 1955)
93. SRELS Journals : Bangalore
94. ATM stands for : Asynchronous Transfer Mode
95. Ocr is a : Input Device
96. IASLIC bulletine is a : Quarterly
97. Acheme of role operators are used in : Précis
98. Intellectual property rights are a bundle of exclusive rights over creation of the mind covering
: Both Artistic And Commercial Creations
99. CODATA was establish by : Icsu
100. Which one of the following has accelerated the growth of electronic publishing :
Optical Median
101. Weka is a : Data Mining Software
102. Cumulative book index is a : Trade Bibliography
103. Field tag in MARC : Directory
104. The inverse square law is the law referred to : Lotks’S Law
105. As per internet standard terminology RFC refers : Request For Comments
106. Manual of library economy was : Brown
107. ISBD : Ifla
108. Five new laws of library science have been offered n 1995 by : Crawford And Gorman
109. The papyrus one of the earliest writing materials was mainly used by : Egyptians
110. Decimal classification completed hundred years in : 1976
111. Principle of regency is related to : Library Publicity
112. Computers process data into information by working exclusively with : Multimedia
113. Relics are sources of information for : Historical Research
114. Median is not affected by : Different Values
115. The acronym ubc coined by : Donald Davinson
116. Name given by sr ranganathan to book mobile : Librachine
117. Information as a flow and knowledge as stock : Marshall Mchuhan
118. CCF : Unesco
119. Which one of the following is an ideological library : Adayar Public Library ,
Chennai
120. The idea of bibliographic coupling was first advocated by : M.M. Kessler
121. Canan for verbal plane are : Four
122. Baud rate is used to measure : The Speed Of Data Transmission In
Telecommunication
123. Ernet is : Education And Research Network
124. Term “epitome” : Review
125. Thomas website is associated with : Thomas Publishers And Co
126. Who coined the word ROBOT : Karl Capek
127. Notation does not make a classification but it may mare it : Wc. Berwick Sayers
128. Farmingtio plan was initiated in uK in the year : 1948
129. A postulate is a : A Self Evident Statement About The Possibility Of A Thing
130. PROLOG : Programming In Logic
131. Which of the following is not a house keeping operation in library : Reference
132. AGRIS regional centre for European countries in located at : Philippines
133. GPSS : Gateway Packet Switched Service
134. Which of the following evaluation techniques is used in forecasting : Delphi
Technique
135. The earliest style of chines writing was mainly : Pictographic
136. V-mail : War Time
137. Digital library of resource of Indian cultural heritage has been named as : Kalanadhi
138. Ugc-net consist of : 4 Sections
139. First Librarian of national library of india was : B.S Kesavan
140. Indcat is a online union catalogue maintained by e : Inflibnet
141. Digital library of India is hosted by : II