Aurhors and Books Related to LIS Exam

1. World of Library and Information Science
by S.K. Kori
for UCG-NET, MPPSC, SET, KVS, NVS, DSSSB,
RSMSSB and other LIS exam.
Competition Class of LIS

2. Authors and Books
• George Kingsely Zipf is related to
Ans: Psycho-biology of language: An introduction to dynamic philosophy
• Alan power related to
Ans: Living with Books
• The book ‘Library Administration’ was brought by Ranganathan in- Ans:
1935
• Who wrote ‘Basic Reference Sources’?
Ans: Louis Shores
• Who is the editor of ‘Encyclopaedia of Librarianship’ (Bows & Bows,
London)?
Ans: Thomas Landau.
• Who is the author of ‘Five laws of Library Science (Madras Library
Association, 1957)
Ans: Dr. S.R.Ranganathan

3. • Who wrote ‘Organisation of Knowledge in Libraries and Subject
Approach to Books’ (H.W.Wilson, 1933)?
Ans: Henry Evelyn Bliss
• Name the author of ‘Grammar of Classification’. (4th ed., 1955)
Ans: W.C.Berwick Sayers
• Could you name the author of ‘A History of Library Association 1877-
1977’?
Ans: W.A.Munford.
• Whose autobiography is the book entitled ‘And Master of None’
(1955)?
Ans: Fremont Rider.
• Who is the author of ‘Foundations of Education for Librarianship’
(1972) that received the Scare Crow Press Award in 1974?
Ans: Jasse H.Shera.

4. • ‘A Librarian’s Memories: Portraits and Reflections’ (1952). Who was
its author?
Ans: E.A.Savage (1877-1966)
• Who was the author of ‘Punjab Library Primer’?
Ans: Asa Don Dickinson
• The two books ‘American Library Resources’ and ‘British Library
Resources’ –were compiled by the same person and are considered a
sort of standard guides for the libraries in the USA and Great Britain
respectively. Can you name the Compiler?
Ans: R.B.Downs
• Who is the author of ‘Memoirs of Libraries, including a handbook of
Library Economy’?
Ans: Edward Edwards (1858)

5. • Name the author of ‘Studies in Co-ordinate Indexing’ (Vols. 1- 6)?
Ans: Mortimer Taube
• ‘Ranganathan: A Pattern Maker: A syndetic study of his contributions’.
Who is the author of this book?
Ans: A.P.Srivastava (Metropolitan, 1977)
• Who wrote ‘Manual of Library Classification and Shelf Arrangement?’
Ans: J.D.Brown (1898)
Who edited the 5th edition of ‘Sayer’s Manual of Classification for
Librarians’?
Ans: Arthur Malthy (Andre Deutsch, 1975)
• Who is the author of ‘Prolegomena to Library Classification’? (3rd ed.,
Bombay: Asia Publishing, 1967)
Ans: Dr. S.R.Ranganathan

6. • Name the author of ‘Principles of Book Classification’.
Ans: E.Wyndham Hulme (London: LA, 1950)
• Name the text book on cataloguing written by Susan G.Akers that was
published by ALA?
Ans: Simple Library Cataloguing
• Name the editor of ‘List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries’
(H.W.Wilson Co., Newyork)
Ans: M.E.Sears
• Name the author of ‘Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue’.
Ans: C.A.Cutter (1876)
• Who wrote the book ‘A Modern Outline of Library Classification’?
Ans: J.Mills (1960)

7. • Who was the author of ‘Classification: Theoretical and Practical’?
Ans: E.C.Richardson (1901)
• Who wrote ‘The Theory of Book Selection for Public Libraries’?
Ans: L.R.McColvin (1925)
• Who is the author of ‘Books that changed the world’?
Ans: Robert Bingham Downs (1956)
• Who is the author of ‘Introduction to Cataloguing and the Classification
of Books’?
Ans: Margaret Mann (1943)
• Who wrote ‘Manual of Library Economy’?
Ans: J.D.Brown. (Editor of 7th edition of this book: R. Northwood Lock)

8. • Who wrote ‘The BSO Manual: The Development, Rationale and Use of
the Broad System of Ordering’?
Ans: Eric Coates, Geoffrey Lloyd and Dusan Simandl
• Who is the author of ‘Indian Library Literature: An Annotated
Bibliography
Ans: Ram Gopal Prasher (1971)
• Who is the editor of ‘Making of Librarianship in Pakistan’ (1987) – a
festschrift volume in honour of Dr. Anis Khurshis?
Ans:Syed Jalaluddin Haider
• Who is the editor of ‘March of Library Science: Kaula Festchrift’.
Ans: V.Venkatappaiah.
• Who are the editors of Library Science Today: Ranganathan Festchrift,
vol.I & II respectively?
Ans: Vol.I: P.N.Kaula Vol. II: A.K.Dasgupta

9. • Who are the authors of ‘The University Library: The Organisation,
Administration, and Functions of Academic Libraries’?
Ans: Louis Round Wilson and Maurice F. Tauber
• Who wrote the book ‘Decimal Classification and Colon Classification
in Perspective’?
Ans: R.S.Parkhi
• Author of Studies of Descriptive Cataloguing?
Ans: Seymour Lubetzky 1946
• Cataloguing Rules and Principals?
Ans: Seymour Lubetzky 1953
• Code of Cataloguing Rules?
Ans: Seymour Lubetzky 1946

10. • A Manual of Children's Libraries
Ans: William Charles Berwick Sayers
• A Modern outline of Library Classification
Ans: J. Mills
• Ramanujan : The man and the Mathematician
Ans: S.R. Ranaganathan
• Modern Information Retrieval
Ans: G.G.Chowdhury
• TQM Application in Libraries
Ans: Stevenson
• Little Science and Big Science
Ans: Derek D. Sola