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MCQs for LIS ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS 1. What is the full form of IATLIS? (a) International Association of Trade Unions of Library & Information Science (b) Indian Association of Teachers in Library & Information Science (c) Indian Airlines Technical Lower Intelligence Services (d) Indian Air Traffic Light Information and Signal 2. IIA founded in USA in 1968 stands for (a) Integrated Industry Association (b) Information Industry Association (c) Integrated Illiteracy eradication Association (d) Institute of Information Association 3. BSO in classification stands for (a) Basic Subject of Organisation (b) Broad System of Ordering (c) Bibliography of Subject Ordering (d) Bibliographic Subject Organisation 4. IPR stands for (a) Indian Press Registration (b) Intellectual Property Right (c) International Property Right (d) Indian Property Regulations 5. NAAC stands for (a) National Accreditation and Authority Council (b) Northern Accreditation and Authorities Committee (c) National Assessment and Accreditation Council (d) Northern Assessment and Accreditation Council 6. ACRL 1 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS (a) Association of College and Research Libraries (b) All College and Research Libraries (c) Academic Community Research Libraries 7. CILIP (a) Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (b) Community Institute for Library and Information Programmes (c) College level Institute for Library and Information Programmes (d) Centre for Indian Library and Information Professionals 8. SCONUL (a) Society of College National and University Libraries (previously Standing Conference of National and University Libraries) (b) School College National and University Libraries (c) Special Council for National and University Libraries (d) None of these 9. NISCAIR (a) National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (b) National Institute of Scientific Cultural and Industrial Research (c) National Institute of Social Cultural and Industrial Research (d) None of the above 10. NILIS (a) National Institute of Library and Information Science (b) National Infrastructure of Library and Information Science (c) National Institution of Library and Information Science (d) None of the above 11. WIPO stands for: (a) World Information and Patents Organisation (b) World Intellectual Property Organisation (c) World International 2 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS Property Organisation (d) World Information Protection Organisation 12. UAP stands for (a) United Academy of Publication (b) Universal Association of Publishers (c) Universal Availability of Publications (d) Universal Association of Publishers 13. ISBN stands for (a) Integrated Services Bibliographic Network (b) Indian Standard Book Number (c) International Standard Book Number (d) International Standard for Book and Non-Book 14. What is the full form of ERNET? (a) Engineering Network (b) Eastern Regional Network (c) Electronic Research Network (d) Education and Research Network 15. ENIAC stands for? (a) Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (b) Electrified Numerical Integration and Calculator (c) Electronic Number Integrator and Calculator (d) Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator 16. PDA stands for: (a) Personal Digital Assistance (b) Personal Digital Archive (c) Personal Document Archive (d) Program Download Accessories 17 . The currently used full form of OCLC is (i) Ohio College Library Center (ii) Online Computer Library Center (iii) Online Catalogue of Library of Congress (iv) none of these. 18. UBC stands for (i) Universal Bibliographic Control (ii) Universal Bibliographic 3 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS Classification (iii) United Bibliographic Control (iv) none of these. 19. INFLIBNET stands for (i) Informing Library Network (ii) Information and Librarians Network (iii) Information and Library Network (iv) Indian National Frontier Library Network. 20. NICDAP stands for (i) National Information Centre for Data Access Programming (ii)National Information Centre for Document Access Programming (iii) National Information Centre for Development and Programming (iv) National Information Centre for Drug and Pharmaceutical (Lucknow). 21. INIS stands for (i) Indian Naval Information System (ii) Indian Narcotics Information Service (iii) International Nuclear Information System (iv) Indian National Information System. 22. AACOBS – Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographic Services 23. AAL – Association of Assistant Librarians 24. AALDI – Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists of India 25. A&I – Abstracting and Indexing 26. AACR2 – Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition 27. AALL – American Association of Law Libraries 28. AALS – Association of American Library Schools 29. AASL – American Association of School Librarians 30. AALS – Association of American Library Schools 31. ABAA – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America 32. ABACUS – Association of Bibliographic Agencies of Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States of America 33. ABC – Abridged Building Classification for Architects, Builders and Civil Engineers; Abridged Bibliographic Classification 34. ABGILA – Annals, Bulletin and Granthalaya of the Indian Library Association 4 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS 35. ABLISS – Association of British Library and Information Science Schools 36. ACPA – Association of Computer Programmers and Analysts 37. ADI – American Documentation Institute 38. AGRINTER – Inter-American Information System for Agricultural Sciences and Technology 39. AGRIS – Agricultural Information System 40. AHIP – Academy of Health Information Professionals 41. AIBA – Agricultural Information Bank of Asia (Philippines 42. AICTE – All India Council for Technical Education 43. AIDS – Abstract Information Digest System (USA) 44. AIRS – Alliance of Information Referral Services (Phonic) 45. AISA – Agricultural Information Society for Asia 46. ALA – American Library Association 47. ALA – Associateship of Library Association 48. ALC – Americans for Libraries Council 49. ALCTS – Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. 50. ALGOL – Algorithmic Language 51. ALISE – Association for Library and Information Science Education 52. ALOHA – Astronomy Librarians of Hawaii Association 53. ALP – Advancement for Librarianship 54. ALPHS – Automated Literature Processing, Handling and Analysis (Alabama) 55. ALSD – Academy of Library Science and Documentation (Hyderabad) 56. ALTA – American Library Trustees Association 57. AMULA – Aligarh Muslim University Libraries Association 58. ANSI – American National Standards Institute 59. APA – American Psychological Association 60. APALA – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association 61. API – Applications Programming Interface 5 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS 62. APUPA – Alien, Penumbral, Umbral, Penumbral, Alien (A kind of arrangement pattern 63. ARIC – Agricultural Research Information Centre (New Delhi) 64. ARIST – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (USA) 65. ARL – Association of Research Libraries 66. ARLIS/ANZ – Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand 67. ARLIS/NA – Art Libraries Society of North America 68. ARLIS/UK & Ireland – Arts Libraries Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland 69. ARMA International – Association of Records Managers and Administrators International 70. ASCA – Atomic Subject Citation Alert 71. ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange 72. ASD – Swiss Association for Documentation i.e. Association Suisse de Documentation 73. ASFIS – Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System 74. ASI – American Society of Indexes 75. ASIS – American Society for Information Science (and Technology) 76. ASLIB – Association of Information Management 77. ASSASSIN – Agricultural System for Storage and Subsequent Selection of Information 78. ASTED – Association pour l'avancement des Sciences et TEchniques de la Documentation 79. ATIS – Appropriate Technology Information Service (Started by COSTED) 80. AUBC – All Union Book Chamber (USSR) 81. AUDACIOUS – Automatic Direct Access to Information with an Online UDC System 82. AV – Audio-Visual 83. BA – Biological Abstract 6 Dr . K.Kamila & Dr. B.Das MCQs for LIS 84. BALID – Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists 85. BALLOTS – Bibliographic Automation of Large Libraries using an Online Time sharing System (Standrad Unit) 86. BANSDOC – Bangladesh National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre 87. BASIC – Biological Abstracts Subjects in Context (Index) 88. BASIC – Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code 89. BBIP – British Books in Print 90. BC – Bibliographic Classification 91. BCA – Bliss Classification Association 92. BCI – Bar Council of India 93. BCM – British Catalogue of Music 94. BCR – Bibliography of Current Reports [from BARC (Mumbai)] 95. BEPI – Bibliography of English Publications in India 96. BFM – Bibliographic File Maintenance 97. BHI – British Humanities Index 98. BHULSA – Banaras Hindu University Library Science Students Association 99. BI – Bibliographic Instruction 100. BIBCO – the monographic BIBliographic record COmponent of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging 101. BIOSIS – Bio-Sciences Information Service [of Biological Abstracts (UK)] 102. BIP – Books In Print 103. BISA – Bibliographic Information on outh-east Asia (Australia) 104. BL – British Library 105. BLA – Bengal Library Association 106. BLAISE – British Library Automated Information Service. 107. BLISc – Bachelor of