Unit Test 3 - Information Sources - Answer key

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1. Where can we find all latest papers published in Library Science?

 Dictionary

 Yearbook

 Trade Catalogue

Indexing/Abstracting serials

2.Which is not a broad category of reference sources

 Primary

 Dictionary

 Secondary

 Tertiary

3.When IFLA announced "Universal Bibliographic Control" as one of its core programmes?

 1972

 1973

 1974

 1975

4.The Indian National Bibliography is being brought out by the National Library since

 1954

 1955

 1956

 1957

5. Which is not a type of bibliographies?

 Analytical

 Descriptive

 Historical

 Prescriptive

6.The word `index' is derived from ______ word `indicare' meaning `to point out' or `to show'

 Greek

 French

 Latin

 German

7. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) first published in

 1970

 1971

 1972

 1973

8. Glossary is a

 dictionary of words of a language giving meaning in another language

 phrases with brief explanations

 list of terms and explanations of specialized or technical nature

 None of the above

9._____ was the first person to use `thesaurus' for English dictionary in 1852

 Robert A. Dutch

 M.C. Arthur

 Henry George Liddell

 Peter Mark Roget

10. Anagram is a

 Word that is opposite in meaning to another.

Word formed from the initial letters of a group of words

 Words or phrase made by rearranging the letter of another word or phrase

 Smallest meaningful unit into which a word can be divided

11. Subject encyclopaedias are also known as…

 Cyclopaedias

 Circle of knowledge

 Encyclopaedia

 Modern encyclopaedias

12. In 77 A.D. who produced the first encyclopaedia 'Historia Naturalis'?

 Aristotle

 Pliny

 Plato

 Terentius Varro

13.Paul Scalich used the word 'encyclopaedia' for the first time in his work

 Encyclopaedias Seu Orbits Methodical

 Encyclopaedia Septem Tomis Distincta

 Encyclopaedie du xviii Siecle

 Encyclopaedia Britannica

14. The first edition of `Encyclopaedia Britannica' appeared in Edinburgh in ____and stopped print version in_____

 1766-2000

 1767-2004

 1768-2012

 1769-2013

15.Propaedia in The New Encyclopaedia Britannica denotes

 gives outline of knowledge

 contains brief information

 containing knowledge in depth

 All the above

16. Which is not a checkpoint for evaluating encyclopaedias are

 Authority

 Scope and purpose

 Treatment

 Year of publication

17.Rules and regulation for government servents can be located from

 General handbooks

 Statistical handbooks

 Official handbooks

 Historical handbooks

18.Tables present _______data in ______form

 Numerical, tabular

 Textual, tabular

 Articles, research report

 All the above

19. Keesing 's Record of World Events is a

 Directory

 News digest

 Handbook

 Index to newspapers

20.Which is not a Indian publications providing standards information.

 BIS Handbook

 Standards Monthly Addition

 Manak Doot

 Annual Book of ASTM Standards

21. Index Medicus published by

 Indian National Library of Medicine

 United States National Library of Medicine (NLM)

 American Library Association

 CILIP

22.The Science Citation Index (SCI) is made available online through the_______database

 Web of Science

 Web of Knowledge

 Web of Social Science

 Proquest

23. Who publishes 'Current Contents'

 Institute for Scientific Information

 Thomson Reuters

 Thomson Scientific

 FID

24. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory was published since 1932 and also now supplied on-line as

 Ulrichsnet

 Ulrichslink

 Ulrichsonline

 Ulrichsweb

25. A gazette give information about?

 Geography locations

 History of places

 Official annoucements and notice

 Old records

26. From 1969, "India Who’s Who" published by

 INFA Publications

 Ministry of HRD

 Ministry of Internal Affairs

 National Library of India

27. Which following types of publications are excluded in Indian National Bibliography

 Keys and Guides to Textbooks

 Musical scores

 Periodicals and Newspapers

 All the above

28.Fodor's Guide is an example of

 Handbook

 Travel guide

 Gazetteer

 Atlas

29.Indian Science Abstracts is a _______ abstracting journal

 Monthly

 Semi-monthly

 Weekly

 Bi-annual

30.The Guinness Book of World Records is comes under category of

 General handbooks

 General directories

 Professional directories

 Official handbooks