Match the following :List IList II(a) Karnataka Public Libraries Act(i) 1967(b) Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act(ii) 1960(c) Maharashtra State Public Libraries Act(iii) 1948(d) Madras Public Libraries Act(iv) 1965

The correct matching is a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii.Madras Public Libraries Act: 1948, the first public library Act in India, drafted by S.R. Ranganathan.Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act: 1960.Karnataka (then Mysore) Public Libraries Act: 1965.Maharashtra Public Libraries Act: 1967.Madras at 1948 is the anchor every candidate should know, and it fixes d-iii, which rules out the options pairing (d) with (ii) or (i). Both options left with d-iii also give Andhra Pradesh 1960, and they differ only on Karnataka and Maharashtra: the near miss swaps them, giving Karnataka 1967 and Maharashtra 1965.

Match the following :List IList II(a) UGC Library Committee(i) A. L. Mudaliar(b) University Education Commission(ii) S. Radhakrishnan(c) Education Commission, 1964(iii) S. R. Ranganathan(d) Secondary Education Commission(iv) D. S. KothariCodes :

The correct matching is (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i).The UGC Library Committee (1957) was chaired by S.R. Ranganathan.The University Education Commission (1948-49) was chaired by S. Radhakrishnan.The Education Commission of 1964-66 was chaired by D.S. Kothari.The Secondary Education Commission (1952-53) was chaired by A.L. Mudaliar.Any code pairing Ranganathan with an education commission or Kothari with secondary education is wrong.

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Q: Which state public library Act provides for an independent minister for library services ?

The answer is West Bengal.The West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979 set up a state-wide library system under the State Government's own library services administration, and West Bengal created a separate ministerial portfolio for library services. Partha De, who took considerable trouble to get the Act passed, became the state's first Minister for Library Services.Kerala, Manipur and Mizoram also have public library Acts (Kerala's of 1989, Mizoram's of 1993), but the separate minister for library services is the feature that marks out West Bengal, so they are the distractors.

Q: Which is true about Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation ?

The Foundation is located at Kolkata and works for public libraries.The Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation was set up in 1972, the bicentenary year of Raja Rammohun Roy, as an autonomous body under the Government of India's Department of Culture, with its headquarters in Kolkata (Salt Lake). Its purpose is to promote and support the public library movement, through grants to public libraries made with the state governments.It is not in Chennai, Mumbai or New Delhi, and university, college and school libraries are funded through other channels, such as the UGC and education departments.

Q: Arrange the following Acts according to the year of their respective enactments :(i) The Mizoram Public Libraries Act(ii) The Kerala Public Libraries Act(iii) The West Bengal Public Libraries Act(iv) Rajasthan Public Libraries Act

The order of enactment is (iii), (ii), (i), (iv).West Bengal Public Libraries Act: 1979.Kerala Public Libraries Act: 1989.Mizoram Public Libraries Act: 1993.Rajasthan Public Libraries Act: 2006.West Bengal is the earliest of the four and Rajasthan the latest, which leaves only one code. The other codes start with Mizoram, Kerala or Rajasthan, and so contradict at least one of these dates.

Q: Which of the following organization prepared the draft of NAPLIS ?

The draft was prepared by the Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation and ILA.In the mid-1980s the Indian Library Association, working with the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, drew up a draft national policy for library and information systems and placed it before the Government of India. The Government then set up a committee under D.P. Chattopadhyaya, which submitted the National Policy on Library and Information System (NAPLIS) in 1986.NISCAIR was formed only in 2002, and IFLA and UNESCO are international bodies that did not draft India's national policy, so the other options are wrong.

Q: Which committees were appointed concerning medical libraries in India ?(i) Krishna Rao Committee(ii) Bhore Committee(iii) Sankaran Committee(iv) Ekbote Committee

The key is (ii) and (iii) are correct: the Bhore Committee and the Sankaran Committee.The Bhore Committee is the Health Survey and Development Committee, appointed by the Government of India in 1943 and reporting in 1946, and it dealt with health and medical education in general. A quiz-site record, not an authoritative source, places a Sankaran Committee on health science libraries in 1959. Taken together they give the keyed pair, which is the only option that contains both names.The Krishna Rao and Ekbote committees appear together in options A, B and C with one of the other names, and none of those pairings matches the key.What could not be confirmed: that the Bhore Committee made recommendations specifically on medical libraries, and the Sankaran Committee's membership and findings. The answer follows the University's key.

Q: Which Notable Gift collection in National Library, Kolkata cover the whole gamut of subjects ?

The key identifies the Sir Asutosh Mukherji collection.The library of Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, the jurist and Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, was donated by his family to the National Library, Kolkata. It is one of the largest gift collections there, running to tens of thousands of volumes, and because he read across law, mathematics, history, literature and science, it covers a very wide range of subjects.The other named gift collections are smaller and more specialised; the collections of the historians Jadunath Sarkar and S.N. Sen, for example, are centred on history.

Q: Assertion (A) : Recent advances in information and communication technology and its utility have forced the university libraries to provide computerized information services.Reason (R) : UGC does not provide any financial assistance to university libraries for computerization.Codes :

(A) is true but (R) is false.Advances in ICT have indeed pushed university libraries to automate and to offer computerised and online services, so the assertion is true.The reason is false: the UGC has funded library computerisation, notably through INFLIBNET, its inter-university centre, which supported automation with the SOUL software, union catalogues and the e-ShodhSindhu consortium for e-resources.

11.

Which state public library Act provides for an independent minister for library services ?

A.Kerala
B.Manipur
C.Mizoram
D.West Bengal

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The answer is West Bengal.

The West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979 set up a state-wide library system under the State Government's own library services administration, and West Bengal created a separate ministerial portfolio for library services. Partha De, who took considerable trouble to get the Act passed, became the state's first Minister for Library Services.

Kerala, Manipur and Mizoram also have public library Acts (Kerala's of 1989, Mizoram's of 1993), but the separate minister for library services is the feature that marks out West Bengal, so they are the distractors.

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12.

Which is true about Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation ?

A.Located at Chennai and works for University Libraries
B.Located at Kolkata and works for Public Libraries
C.Located at Mumbai and works for College Libraries
D.Located at New Delhi and works for School Libraries

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The Foundation is located at Kolkata and works for public libraries.

The Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation was set up in 1972, the bicentenary year of Raja Rammohun Roy, as an autonomous body under the Government of India's Department of Culture, with its headquarters in Kolkata (Salt Lake). Its purpose is to promote and support the public library movement, through grants to public libraries made with the state governments.

It is not in Chennai, Mumbai or New Delhi, and university, college and school libraries are funded through other channels, such as the UGC and education departments.

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13.

Arrange the following Acts according to the year of their respective enactments :

(i) The Mizoram Public Libraries Act
(ii) The Kerala Public Libraries Act
(iii) The West Bengal Public Libraries Act
(iv) Rajasthan Public Libraries Act

A.(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
B.(iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
C.(ii), (iii), (iv), (i)
D.(iv), (iii), (ii), (i)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The order of enactment is (iii), (ii), (i), (iv).

West Bengal Public Libraries Act: 1979.
Kerala Public Libraries Act: 1989.
Mizoram Public Libraries Act: 1993.
Rajasthan Public Libraries Act: 2006.

West Bengal is the earliest of the four and Rajasthan the latest, which leaves only one code. The other codes start with Mizoram, Kerala or Rajasthan, and so contradict at least one of these dates.

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14.

Which of the following organization prepared the draft of NAPLIS ?

A.Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation and ILA
B.Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation and NISCAIR
C.ILA and Unesco
D.IFLA and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The draft was prepared by the Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation and ILA.

In the mid-1980s the Indian Library Association, working with the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, drew up a draft national policy for library and information systems and placed it before the Government of India. The Government then set up a committee under D.P. Chattopadhyaya, which submitted the National Policy on Library and Information System (NAPLIS) in 1986.

NISCAIR was formed only in 2002, and IFLA and UNESCO are international bodies that did not draft India's national policy, so the other options are wrong.

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15.

Match the following :

List I	List II
(a) Karnataka Public Libraries Act	(i) 1967
(b) Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act	(ii) 1960
(c) Maharashtra State Public Libraries Act	(iii) 1948
(d) Madras Public Libraries Act	(iv) 1965

A.a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii
B.a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
C.a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii
D.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii.

Madras Public Libraries Act: 1948, the first public library Act in India, drafted by S.R. Ranganathan.
Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act: 1960.
Karnataka (then Mysore) Public Libraries Act: 1965.
Maharashtra Public Libraries Act: 1967.

Madras at 1948 is the anchor every candidate should know, and it fixes d-iii, which rules out the options pairing (d) with (ii) or (i). Both options left with d-iii also give Andhra Pradesh 1960, and they differ only on Karnataka and Maharashtra: the near miss swaps them, giving Karnataka 1967 and Maharashtra 1965.

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16.

Which of the following are the National Libraries ?

(i) England Library, Great Britain
(ii) Library of Congress, USA
(iii) Bibliotheque Nationale de France
(iv) National Diet Library, Japan

A.(i), (ii), (iii) are correct
B.(ii), (iii), (iv) are correct
C.(i), (iii), (iv) are correct
D.(i), (ii), (iv) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The national libraries are the Library of Congress, the Bibliotheque nationale de France and the National Diet Library, so the answer is (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct.

The Library of Congress serves as the de facto national library of the United States, the Bibliotheque nationale de France is the national library of France, and the National Diet Library in Tokyo is Japan's national library and the library of its parliament.

There is no 'England Library': the national library of the United Kingdom is the British Library, formed in 1973. Item (i) is therefore not a national library, and every option that includes it is wrong.

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17.

Which committees were appointed concerning medical libraries in India ?

(i) Krishna Rao Committee
(ii) Bhore Committee
(iii) Sankaran Committee
(iv) Ekbote Committee

A.(i) and (iii) are correct
B.(i) and (ii) are correct
C.(iii) and (iv) are correct
D.(ii) and (iii) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

The key is (ii) and (iii) are correct: the Bhore Committee and the Sankaran Committee.

The Bhore Committee is the Health Survey and Development Committee, appointed by the Government of India in 1943 and reporting in 1946, and it dealt with health and medical education in general. A quiz-site record, not an authoritative source, places a Sankaran Committee on health science libraries in 1959. Taken together they give the keyed pair, which is the only option that contains both names.

The Krishna Rao and Ekbote committees appear together in options A, B and C with one of the other names, and none of those pairings matches the key.

What could not be confirmed: that the Bhore Committee made recommendations specifically on medical libraries, and the Sankaran Committee's membership and findings. The answer follows the University's key.

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18.

Which Notable Gift collection in National Library, Kolkata cover the whole gamut of subjects ?

A.Dr. S.N. Sen
B.Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
C.Jadunath Sarkar
D.Sir Asutosh Mukherji

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The key identifies the Sir Asutosh Mukherji collection.

The library of Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, the jurist and Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University, was donated by his family to the National Library, Kolkata. It is one of the largest gift collections there, running to tens of thousands of volumes, and because he read across law, mathematics, history, literature and science, it covers a very wide range of subjects.

The other named gift collections are smaller and more specialised; the collections of the historians Jadunath Sarkar and S.N. Sen, for example, are centred on history.

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19.

Match the following :

List I	List II
(a) UGC Library Committee	(i) A. L. Mudaliar
(b) University Education Commission	(ii) S. Radhakrishnan
(c) Education Commission, 1964	(iii) S. R. Ranganathan
(d) Secondary Education Commission	(iv) D. S. Kothari

Codes :

A.(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
B.(a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
C.(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
D.(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

The correct matching is (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i).

The UGC Library Committee (1957) was chaired by S.R. Ranganathan.
The University Education Commission (1948-49) was chaired by S. Radhakrishnan.
The Education Commission of 1964-66 was chaired by D.S. Kothari.
The Secondary Education Commission (1952-53) was chaired by A.L. Mudaliar.

Any code pairing Ranganathan with an education commission or Kothari with secondary education is wrong.

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20.

Assertion (A) : Recent advances in information and communication technology and its utility have forced the university libraries to provide computerized information services.
Reason (R) : UGC does not provide any financial assistance to university libraries for computerization.

Codes :

A.(A) is true but (R) is false
B.(A) is false but (R) is true
C.Both (A) and (R) are false
D.Both (A) and (R) are true

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2021, SET Exam - 2021,

Answer: A

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Advances in ICT have indeed pushed university libraries to automate and to offer computerised and online services, so the assertion is true.

The reason is false: the UGC has funded library computerisation, notably through INFLIBNET, its inter-university centre, which supported automation with the SOUL software, union catalogues and the e-ShodhSindhu consortium for e-resources.

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