Interview questions for Librarian posts.

List Interview Questions for LIS Professionals

1. Introduce Yourself
2. What are your strengths & weakness
3. Why did you decide to enter the field of library and information science? OR
What motivated you to seek a library degree?
4. Why did you decide to apply for this position?
5. Discuss some of your achievement regarding this field.
6. What kind of work environment do you prefer?
7. How are you qualified for this job? OR What qualifications do you have that
make you think you will be a success at this job?
8. Do you have some extraordinary qualities that distinguish you from others?
9. The person in this position needs to be innovative and proactive.
Can you describe some things you have done to demonstrate these qualities?
10. How would you rate your communication skills and what have you done to
improve them?
11. What experience do you have dealing with academic scholars?
12. What is your experience with automated systems and with computers in
general?
13. Tell us about yourself and your ambition.
14. Tell us about some of your contribution to improve our field.
15. What do you think a reference librarian's duties should be?
16. Tell us about your subject background and about your coursework outside of
library science.
17. Do you have the skills necessary to create and maintain our WWW home pages?
18. Do you plan to continue your education?
19. Starting with your last job, would you tell me about some of your achievements
that were recognized by your superiors?
20. What are some things you would like to avoid in a job? Why?
21. What does success mean to you? How do you judge it?
22. What types of things make you angry? How do you react?
23. In what ways do you think you can make a contribution to our department?
24. Why do you think this library should hire you?
25. Describe your experience in creating documents, proposals, research findings, or any other form of written copy.
26. Mention some popular reference materials.
27. What does librarianship means?
28. Mention some popular online databases with their subject coverage.
29. Briefly discuss about Melvil Dewey.
30. Mention some popular journals in our field.
31. Abbreviate ISBN and ISSN. Describe their role in this information era.
32. What do you mean by "Bibliography”? How will you arrange a bibliography?
33. Discuss the library movement in your country.
34. Which is more important ' Bibliography or Abstract ' for controlling
information explosion?
35. Briefly discuss about Library Association in your country?
36. Which is the world's oldest Library Association?
37. What is library science?
38. Which is the largest library in the world?
39. What are the major classifications of the DDC?
40. What are the twenty major classes of Library of Congress?
41. What are the major Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) classes?
42. What are the ten major classes of Universal Decimal Classification?
43. Which is the largest library in your country (both in collection and structure)?
44. Briefly discuss history of library education in your country.
45. Which resource do you prefer - electronic or print, and why?
46. Discuss some major problems of library automation in your country.
47. Which classification scheme would you prefer and why?
48. What do you mean by National Bibliography? Is there any national bibliography
published in your country?
49. What do you mean by classification?
50. Mention five popular National Library in the world.
51. Briefly Discuss about IFLA, it's role to promote librarianship around the world.
52. What does information literacy means?
53. What does OPAC means?
54. Discuss briefly the role of OCLC, its functions.
55. How reference services differ from information service?
56. Discuss the benefits of library automation.
57. Why classification is necessary?
58. Which is the largest academic library in your country?
59. Why Public library is called the People's University?
60. Discuss the various types of library that exist in a civil society.
61. Why networking and resource sharing of a library is necessary?
62. Mention two modern information services.