LIBRARIAN INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
- What do you know about our library?
- Do you know anything about our community?
- Why did you apply for this position?
- What significant changes or trends are affecting libraries nationally and/or provincially?
- How would you deal with patrons who has exceeded their time?
- Do you have experience working with committees and boards?
- Do you have experience with policy development/ (Policy making has to be enforced, flexible and updated)
- Do you have experience working with children? Youth? Seniors?
- Do you have experience preparing & managing budgets? Fiscal responsibility?
- Give me an example of a project you planned and implemented?
- Did you complete a final report upon your projects completion?
- What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?
- Can you share with me a significant contribution you have made to a team to reach the targeted outcomes?
- Do you have previous administration experience?
- Do you have supervisory experience?
- Have you performed staff evaluations?
- What do you do to increase staff morale to motivate the team?
- What is your leadership style?
- What important skills does a leader need?
- Have you experience in advocacy? Marketing?
- Do you have social media skills?
- How do you work with a difficult colleague?
- How do you deal with an angry and/or difficult patron?
- How do you communicate a difficult message?
- How important are good communication skills?
- Have you experience with facility operations? Upgrades? Handling problems?
- Have you ever planned and/or organized fundraising events?
- Have you experience writing funding grants?
- Have you had experience when a project didn’t go according to plan? How did you resolve this challenge?
- When was the last time you had constructive criticism? How did you deal with this?
- When you’re creating a collection plan what do you need to take into consideration?
- Have you ever used Agreements?
- Have you developed training session/s or presentation/s? What did you learn? What did you change when you presented this again?
- What are your thoughts on censorship?
- Please share your library program experience?
- If I spoke to your friends, how would they describe you?
- What constitutes a good library program?
- What online tools do you use the most?
- Have you worked with reference software?
- What database are you comfortable using?
- What professional tech training skills do you have?
- What professional development workshops/sessions have you recently attended?
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
- Are you comfortable with lifting 35 pounds?
- Are you available to work some evenings or weekends?
- Have you worked with volunteers?
- How do you manage volunteers in the library?
- What are your salary expectations?
- When are you able to start work?
- What book are you currently reading?
- What do you do for fun?