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COMMITTEES ON LIS EDUCATION IN INDIA

Sr. No. Committee Year Chairperson
1 Ranganathan Committee on University and College Libraries 1957 Dr. S R Ranganathan
2 Ranganathan Committee on LIS Education 1961 Dr. S R Ranganathan
3 Kaula Committee on Curriculum Development in LIS Education 1990 Prof. P N Kaula
4 Subject Panel on Lib. & Inf. Sc. 1997 Not Available
5 Karisiddappa Committee on Curriculum Development in LIS 1997 Dr. C R Karisiddappa
6 Advisory Committee for Libraries (K. P. Sinha Committee) 1957 Shri K.P. Sinha
7 National Policy on Library and Information System (CONPOLIS) 1986 Prof. D.P. Chattopadhyaya
8 National Knowledge Commission 2005 Sam Pitroda
9 National Mission on Libraries 2012 Prof. Deepak Pental
10 Library Committee (UGC) 1957 Dr. S R Ranganathan
11 Review Committee on Library Science Education (UGC) 1965 Dr. S R Ranganathan
12 Curriculum Development Committees (UGC) 1990 & 2001 Prof. P N Kaula (1990), Dr. C R Karisiddappa (2001)

THEORIES OF MANAGEMENT AND FOUNDERS

Sl. No. Theories Founders Year
1 Principles of Scientific Management / Father of Scientific Management F.W. Taylor 1910
2 Functional Management (Command and Control) / Classical Theory, Father of Administration Henri Fayol 1910
3 Sociological Perspective / Father of Human Relation School — The human relations approach (New Classical approach). Elton Mayo termed it Clinical approach, focusing on informal relations, moral, and psychological aspects of an organization. Elton Mayo 1923
4 Theory X and Theory Y D.M. Mc Gregor 1960
5 Motivation — Hygiene Approach / Father of Corporate Strategy F. Herzberg 1959
6 Hierarchy of Needs Theory / Motivational Theory Abraham Maslow 1943
7 Bureaucratic Organization Max Weber 1922
8 Management as a Discipline Peter Drucker 1954
9 POSDCORB Luther Gulick 1937
10 Theory Z Ouchi 1981
11 Demand & Supply Theory of Books Mc Colvin 1925
12 MBO (Management by Objective) Peter Drucker 1954
13 Zero Base Budgeting Peter Phyrr 1970
14 New York Changing System John Cotton Dana 1900

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WITH ESTABLISHMENT YEAR

Organization Est. Year Additional Information
CSIR — Council of Scientific And Industrial Research 1942 CSIR was established in September 1942.
FAO – Food And Agriculture Organisation 1945 FAO was founded on 16 October 1945.
UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization 1945 UNESCO was founded in 1945.
UGC – University Grants Commission 1953 UGC came into existence on 28 December 1953 and became a statutory organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956.
IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency 1957 IAEA was created in 1957.
ICSSR – Indian Council For Science Research 1969 ICSSR was established in 1969.
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization 1970 WIPO was formally created by the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, which entered into force on 26 April 1970.
UNISIST – United Nations International Scientific Information System 1971 The UNISIST model of information dissemination was proposed in 1971 by the United Nations.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

1 Elements of Library Classification S.R. Ranganathan
2 Library Administration Theory And Practice R.L. Mithal
3 Cataloguing Theory and Practice C.G. Viswanathan
4 Rules for Dictionary Catalogue C.A. Cutter
5 Little Science Big Science D.J. Desolla Price
6 Documentation S.C. Bradford
7 Subject Approach to Information D.J. Foskett
8 Manual of Library Economy N.R. Look
9 Documentation and its Facets S.R. Ranganathan
10 Manual of Cataloguing Practice C.G. Viswanathan

LIBRARY LEGISLATION AND YEAR OF ENACTING

Sl No. State Act Year
1 Tamilnadu 1948
2 Andhra Pradesh 1960
3 Karnataka 1965
4 Maharashtra 1967
5 West Bengal 1979
6 Manipur 1988
7 Haryana 1989
8 Kerala 1989
9 Mizoram 1993
10 Goa 1993
11 Gujarat 2001
12 Odisha 2001
13 Uttarakhand 2005
14 Rajasthan 2006
15 Uttar Pradesh 2006
16 Bihar 2008
17 Chhattisgarh 2009
18 Arunachal Pradesh 2009
19 Telangana 2015

CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

Sr. No. Classification Schemes Inventor Year
1 Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Melvil Dewey 1876
2 Colon Classification (CC) S.R. Ranganathan 1933
3 Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) FID 1905
4 Library of Congress Classification Library of Congress 1904
5 Subject Classification (SC) J.D. Brown 1906
6 Expansive Classification (EC) Cutter C.A. 1879/1891
7 Bibliographic Classification (BC) Bliss H.E. 1935
8 International Classification (IC) F. Rider 1961
9 Library Bibliographic Classification (LBK) Lenin Library Moscow 1959
10 Broad System of Ordering (BSO) FID/Unesco 1978

CATALOGUING SCHEMES

Sr. No. Cataloguing Schemes Inventor Year
1 Vatican Code Vatican Library 1927
2 Anglo-American rules: Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries ALA 1908
3 American Library Association rules: A.L.A. Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries ALA 1949
4 British Museum Code The British Museum Research Board 1841
5 Rules For Dictionary Catalogues Cutter C.A. 1876
6 Classified Catalogue Code (CCC) Dr. S.R. Ranganathan 1934
7 American Library Association ALA 1949
8 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules—I ALA 1967
9 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules—II ALA, Gorman Michaël, Winkler Paul Walter 1978
10 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules II 2 R (2nd revised ed.) ALA 1988

Cataloguing and Bibliographic Description Standards, Subject Headings

Standard Year
Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898
Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923
AACR (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) first published 1908
MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging) 1966
AACR-1 1967
CCF (Common Communication Format) 1972
ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) 1974
UNIMARC 1977
AACR-II 1978

INDEXING SYSTEMS/ ORIGINATORS AND YEARS

Sr. No. Indexing System Inventor Year
1 Citation Indexing A. Garfield 1955
2 Subject Indexing M.E. Sears 1923
3 Automated Indexing H. Ohlman 1957
4 SLIC Indexing J.R. Sharma 1966
5 Thesaurus Indexing P.M. Rogget 29 April 1852
6 Systematic Indexing Kaiser, J. 1911
7 Chain Indexing Dr. S.R. Ranganathan 1934
8 Uniterm Indexing M. Taube 1953
9 Key Word Indexing H.P. Luhn 1959
10 PREserved Context Indexing System Derik Austin 1974
11 Postulate Based Permuted Subject Indexing (POPSI) G. Bhattacharya 1969
12 COMPASS BNB 1991

Major Citation Index Contribution by Eugene Garfield

Year Event Description
1955 Eugene Garfield introduces the concept of citation indexing for the sciences.
1960 ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) is founded.
1960 ISI introduces Index Chemicus, its first offering focusing on the chemical sciences.
1964 ISI produces the first Science Citation Index (SCI).
1973 Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)™ is introduced.
1976 Journal Citation Reports™ is introduced, collating journal-to-journal citations.
1976 Journal Citation Reports™ includes indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor™.
1978 Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)™ is introduced.

 

  1. Reviews and surveys are ____ examination of information and literature on a particular subject or topic.

    • (A) general
    • (B) critical
    • (C) analytical
    • (D) content
      Answer: (B)

  2. _________ information system related to mostly government sponsored projects and programmes such as nuclear energy missions, space research and like.

    • (A) Discipline oriented
    • (B) Mission oriented
    • (C) Problem oriented
    • (D) Information oriented
      Answer: (B)

  3. The two vital components of communication are: physical media and ______ carried by the media for the communication.

    • (A) technology
    • (B) contents
    • (C) experts
    • (D) institutions
      Answer: (B)

  4. Information is made up of ______

    • (A) paper print
    • (B) number
    • (C) symbolic elements
    • (D) microform
      Answer: (C)

  5. Knowledge is which form of information?

    • (A) Unorganized
    • (B) Organized
    • (C) Raw
    • (D) Statistical
      Answer: (B)

  6. Large scale of information worldwide resulted in the

    • (A) technology events
    • (B) information society
    • (C) trade practice
    • (D) research and development
      Answer: (B)

  7. Information or knowledge that is packed in documents can be broadly grouped under how many categories?

    • (A) four
    • (B) two
    • (C) five
    • (D) three
      Answer: (D)

  8. Which one is not a characteristic of information society?

    • (A) Information is used as an economic resource.
    • (B) It is possible to identify greater use of information among society.
    • (C) It is spread all over.
    • (D) The development of an information sector within the economy.
      Answer: (C)

  9. Who developed the term information society?

    • (A) Ranganathan
    • (B) Beesman
    • (C) Fritz Machlup
    • (D) J.H. Shera
      Answer: (C)

  10. Which of the following is not covered under Intellectual Property Rights?

  • (A) Copyrights
  • (B) Patents
  • (C) Trade marks
  • (D) Thesaurus
    Answer: (D)
  1. Information science is a discipline that investigates
  • (A) the properties and behaviour of information
  • (B) the forces governing the flow of information
  • (C) the means for processing of information for optimal uses
  • (D) all of these
    Answer: (D)
  1. Invisible colleges are
  • (A) networks of people interested in the same subject
  • (B) help in communication
  • (C) neither (A) nor (B)
  • (D) both (A) and (B)
    Answer: (D)
  1. What is the essential aspect of information service?
  • (A) Retrieval of information
  • (B) Storage of information
  • (C) Collection of information
  • (D) Communication of information
    Answer: (D)
  1. An example of a communication channel is
  • (A) context
  • (B) face-to-face conversation
  • (C) noise
  • (D) none of the above
    Answer: (B)
  1. Which is the real process to gain knowledge from information?
  • (A) Information, data, knowledge
  • (B) Information, knowledge, data
  • (C) Data, information, knowledge
  • (D) Data, knowledge, information
    Answer: (C)
  1. What is knowledge in character and size?
  • (A) Stable and dimensional
  • (B) Stable and multidimensional
  • (C) Dynamic and dimensional
  • (D) Dynamic and multidimensional
    Answer: (D)
  1. An Invisible college is a typical example of
  • (A) Informal channels of communication
  • (B) Formal channels of communication
  • (C) Both (A) and (B)
  • (D) None of the above
    Answer: (A)
  1. In which country was the word information first used?
  • (A) USA
  • (B) France
  • (C) UK
  • (D) Italy
    Answer: (A)
  1. The information is treated as
  • (A) power
  • (B) resource
  • (C) product
  • (D) all the above
    Answer: (D)
  1. What is the most important thing for research and development programmes of a country nowadays?
  • (A) Subject
  • (B) Document
  • (C) Books
  • (D) Information
    Answer: (D)
  1. Information is
  • (A) raw data
  • (B) organized data
  • (C) input data
  • (D) unorganized data
    Answer: (B)
  1. In modern time, all the activities of the human are centered on
  • (A) self
  • (B) information
  • (C) business
  • (D) computer
    Answer: (B)
  1. Information may be categorized into following three parts
  • (A) logical, analytical and statistical
  • (B) analytical, statistical and systematic
  • (C) systematic, analytical and descriptive
  • (D) statistical, descriptive and analytical
    Answer: (D)
  1. Which of the following is not the attribute of information?
  • (A) It has no colour and no physical form
  • (B) It is dynamic, but not still
  • (C) It can be explained
  • (D) It cannot be evaluated
    Answer: (D)
  1. The data which have been processed into a form that is meaningful to the recipient is known as
  • (A) data
  • (B) information
  • (C) knowledge
  • (D) intelligence
    Answer: (B)
  1. Who amongst the following tried to differentiate between information and knowledge in context to information theory?
  • (A) Shannon
  • (B) Weaver
  • (C) Brookes
  • (D) Yovits
    Answer: (C)
  1. What has made the development more speedy than ever before?
  • (A) Information
  • (B) Knowledge
  • (C) Books and Periodicals
  • (D) The person himself
    Answer: (A)
  1. Which theory of information is concerned with the flow of information?
  • (A) Shannon theory
  • (B) Stochastic theory
  • (C) Mathematical theory
  • (D) Brooks theory
    Answer: (B)
  1. Today information is regarded as
  • (A) wealth
  • (B) commodity
  • (C) product
  • (D) all the above
    Answer: (D)
  1. The backwardness of any country with respect to socio-economic spheres is mainly due to lack of
  • (A) adequate information
  • (B) adequate information specially in Science & Technology
  • (C) adequate information in engineering
  • (D) adequate information in all disciplines
    Answer: (B)
  1. Entropy is a measure of
  • (A) Degree of relevance of information
  • (B) Quantity of irrelevant information
  • (C) Degree of uncertainty in information
  • (D) Degree of certainty in information
    Answer: (C)
  1. A country rich in information is rich in which of the following spheres?
  • (A) Social sphere
  • (B) Industrial sphere
  • (C) Political sphere
  • (D) Socio-economic spheres
    Answer: (D)
  1. The countries which are doing effective use of information are
  • (A) economically developed countries
  • (B) economically weak countries
  • (C) economically under development countries
  • (D) non-developed countries
    Answer: (A)
  1. Who gave the question D1 (S) ® (S + DS) for information theory?
  • (A) Shannon
  • (B) Yovits
  • (C) Weaver
  • (D) Brookes
    Answer: (D)
  1. How Stochastic equation of information is solved?
  • (A) by statistical rules
  • (B) by dynamic rules
  • (C) by statistical and dynamic rules
  • (D) none of the above
    Answer: (C)
  1. What is information Science as a discipline?
  • (A) A study of the use of information
  • (B) A study of sources and development of information
  • (C) A study of complex multidisciplinary subject
  • (D) All the above
    Answer: (D)
  1. Who enunciated Mathematical theory of information?
  • (A) Shannon and Weaver
  • (B) W. Weaver
  • (C) James Mills
  • (D) D. T. Foskette
    Answer: (B)
  1. COM stands for
  • (A) Computerised Management
  • (B) Computer output microfilm
  • (C) Computer Management
  • (D) None of the above
    Answer: (B)
  1. Who enunciated Semantic theory of information?
  • (A) Shannon
  • (B) Weaver
  • (C) Fairthorne
  • (D) Fayol
    Answer: (C)
  1. Who produced the following definition of Information Science—Information Science is the discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring of information.
  • (A) Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • (B) Ranganathan
  • (C) Encyclopaedia Americana
  • (D) J. H. Shera
    Answer: (A)
  1. Who suggested that information is data of value for decision making?
  • (A) Shannon and Weaver
  • (B) Whittemore and Yovits
  • (C) Brookes and Weaver
  • (D) Yovits and Shannon
    Answer: (B)
  1. In which year Shannon and Weaver enunciated the Mathematical theory of information?
  • (A) 1939
  • (B) 1948
  • (C) 1959
  • (D) 1969
    Answer: (B)
  1. Who suggested that the amount of information in a message is dependent on the size of the words contained in the message?
  • (A) Shannon and Weaver
  • (B) Weaver and Hookes
  • (C) Shannon and Brookes
  • (D) Weaver and Borden
    Answer: (A)
  1. In which theory of information, the information is increased by the prior knowledge of recipient?
  • (A) Brookes theory
  • (B) Semantic theory
  • (C) Mathematical theory
  • (D) Whittemore theory
    Answer: (B)
  1. ‘Libraries as Gateways to Knowledge’ is the title of the document
  • (A) National Information Policy, 1986
  • (B) Information Technology Act, 2000
  • (C) National Knowledge Commission on Libraries, 2007
  • (D) None of the above
    Answer: (C)
  1. What have been influenced by advances of information in the society?
  • (A) Living standards
  • (B) Patterns of work and leisure
  • (C) The education system and marketplaces
  • (D) All the above
    Answer: (D)
  1. A society in which information rather than material flows constitute most of its communication and control is known as
  • (A) rich society
  • (B) industrial society
  • (C) electronic society
  • (D) information society
    Answer: (D)
  1. To which country the credit is given to coin the term information society?
  • (A) USA
  • (B) France
  • (C) Japan
  • (D) India
    Answer: (C)
  1. The high growth of information is known as
  • (A) information growth
  • (B) exponential information
  • (C) information explosion
  • (D) information implosion
    Answer: (C)
  1. What is called information society?
    • (A) the society in which all the functions are related
    • (B) the society which depends on information for all its developments
    • (C) the society in which the information is being marketed
    • (D) the society which is based on information
      Answer: (D)