Maharashtra State Eligibility Test May 2016 Paper 2 (1-10)

1. First librarian to use the phrase "Reference Interview" was
S.C. Bradford
D.J. Fosket
S.R. Ranganathan
Margaret Hutchins

2. Library cess is
Tax levied by the Central Government
Tax levied by the State Government
Surcharge on an existing tax
Fee charged by the library

3. Which of the following is not a depository library under delivery of Books Act?
National Library, Kolkata
Connemara Public Library, Chennai
Asiatic Society's Library, Mumbai
State Central Library, Gujarat

4. Which technique evaluated work done by an employee?
PPBS
PERT
Performance appraisal
Operations research

5. Which of the following is meant to stock a large collection of rarely used documents in less space of stacks
Block arrangement
Classified arrangement
Broken order
Ribbon Arrangement

6. Decimal fraction device helps in
Interpolation in Array
Extrapolation in Array
Extrapolation in Chain
Interpolation in Chain

7. Who is the author of 'Putting Knowledge to Work'?
J. H. Shera
S. R. Ranganathan
G. Bhattacharya
Pauline Atherton

8. Which of the following pair is wrong?
Eugene Garfield--Citation Indexing
H.P. Luhn--KWIC Indexing
S.R. Ranganathan--Chain Indexing
Derek Austin--POPSI

9. Redundancy of information is
Unnecessary and should be eliminated
Unnecessary but cannot be avoided
Necessary and sometime useful
Necessary and always desirable

10. Identify the MARC tag that is used for variable fields containing data related to physical description of the document
7XX
4XX
3XX
1XX