Who is considered the founder of documentation science?

• Paul Otlet

• F. W. Lancaster

• Ranganathan

• Melvil Dewey

The “Chain Indexing” method was developed by Ranganathan in which year:

• 1933

• 1938

• 1962

• 1968

Who invented Bengali Haraf (movable type for printing)?

• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

• William Carey

• Raja Rammohan Roy

• Charles Wilkins

Who described the public library as a “people’s university”?

• S. R. Ranganathan

• Melvil Dewey

• Paul Otlet

• Alvin S. Johnson

What is the name of the national library of Japan?

• Imperial Library of Japan

• Tokyo Central Library

• National Diet Library

• Japan National Archives

When was the National Book Trust (NBT) established?

• 1947

• 1957

• 1967

• 1977

Who prepared the “Panizzi’s 91 rules” for cataloguing?

• Charles Ammi Cutter

• Anthony Panizzi

• Ranganathan

• Lubetzky

PRECIS indexing system was developed by:

• Derek Austin

• Kaiser

• P. Evans

• Foskett

In AACR2, the abbreviation “S.l.” stands for:

• Same location

• Source lost

• Sine loco (place unknown)

• Subject location

What is the correct sequence in Ranganathan’s PMEST?

• Personality, Space, Energy, Matter, Time

• Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, Time

• Personality, Matter, Space, Time, Energy

• Personality, Energy, Matter, Space, Time