Friday, October 18, 2013

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS & INDEXING SYSTEMS -70

INDEXING SYSTEMS AND INVENTOR 
1 Subject Indexing :- M.E. Sears
2 Automated Indexing :- H. Ohlman
3 SLIC Indexing :- J.R. Sharpa
4 Zator System :- Calvin Mooers
5 Selecto System :- Cordannir
6 NEPHIS :-Timothy C. Craven
7 Thesaurus Indexing :- P.M. Rogget 1852
8 Systematic indexing :- Kaiser, J. 1911
9 Chain Indexing :- Dr. S.R.Rangnathan 1934
10 Relation Analysis :- Farradabce 1950
11 Uniterm Indexing :- M. Taube 1953
12 Key Word Indexing :- H.P. Luhn 1959
13 Citation Indexing :- E. Garfield 1963
14 BTI Indexing :- Coates 1963
15 PREserved Context Indexing System (PRESIS) :- Derik Austin 1974
16 Postulate Based Permuted Subject Indexing (POPSI) :- G. Bhattacharya 1979

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Frequently Asked Interview Questions


1. Describe your strengths and weaknesses.
2. Considering your education and work experience, why do you feel you are qualified for this job?
3. What do you see as the value of belonging to professional organizations?
4. Why did you apply for this job?
5. What is your philosophy of collection development?
6. Do you like working with people?
7. Do you have any experience with audio-visual materials?
8. Do you have any experience in setting up displays?
9. How do you feel that your education has prepared you for this job?
10. Where do you expect to be professionally in five years?
11. How would you handle a person who objects to a sex education book on the shelf?
12. How would you handle a question over the phone that you can’t answer immediately?
13. Is there any time that you would refuse to answer a patronís request?
14. If we ask your present supervisor what your present strengths are, what would he/she say?
15. Why should we hire you?
16. Name two books you have read within the past two months and describe one of them as though you were recommending it to a patron to read. Why would they want to read it?
17. What qualities do you think we should look for in a prospective reference librarian?
18. Considering your working career, tell about the most stressful event you ever faced, and how you coped with it.
19. Picture this: It is 5:00 PM and you are relieving the day shift. You are the only reference librarian on the desk and the following are waiting for help. In what order would you answer them and why?
a. A young child with a homework assignment
b. A trivia question; the contest is on now.
c. A woman who has just read Jannette Daileyís latest book and wants a recommendation for a similar book
d. An elderly couple wanting advice on how to do their genealogy.
e. The city managerís office is on the telephone.
20. What did you do to prepare for this interview?
21. What is your style of leadership?
22. Describe your ideal job.
23. What was your most challenging supervisory experience?
24. What do you like most about archival work?
25. Describe differences among patrons in a public library, an academic library, and a special library.
26. If you were assisting a person at the reference desk and the telephone rang, what would you do?
27. After you have eliminated the backlog, how do you see this job as challenging to you? What will motivate you to come to work?
28. Why did you elect to attend the University of South Carolina?
29. Why did you choose librarianship as a career?
30. Can you tell us about a particularly tense or chaotic situation at the reference desk and how you handled the incident?
31. What would you do if you heard a staff member provide a patron with an incorrect answer?
32. Tell us about a team or group project you have worked on and how you have contributed to it.
33. Tell us about your experience with information technology.
34. Why are you interested in this particular career?
35. What strengths do you bring to a reference position and what areas would you like to improve?
36. What are the things you particularly like about your present job?
37. What was your most important work-related accomplishment in the past year?
38. What contributions could you make to our library?
39. How would you describe your management philosophy?
40. What type of management style do you prefer?
41. What sorts of people do you enjoy working with most?
42. What kinds of situations do you find stressful?
43. What would you do if you were at the desk and both the phones were ringing and there were three or four patrons already waiting and a demanding professor interrupted?
44. Outline your science background, including: science coursework, library school coursework in science reference, and science library experience.
45. What is your public service experience, including bibliographic instruction, reference desk, and collection development?
46. What is your knowledge and/or experience of library technology?
47. How does this position fit into the career path you have set for yourself?
48. Give us an example of a time in which you felt you were able to build motivation in your coworkers or fellow students in school.
49. Describe the most significant achievement or written project/presentation/report which you have had to complete.
50. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a librarian?
51. Give us an example you did in a former job that contributed to a teamwork environment.
52. What would you do if you were unsure of how to answer a reference question?
53. What are your current research interests?
54. The role of the reference librarian and the reference department has changed a lot in the past five years and will probably continue to change. How do you see reference service changing in the next five years?

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YEAR OF APPEARANCE

14JUN
BRITISH MUSEUM CODE — 1841
RULES FOR DICTIONARY CATALOGUE–1876
PRUSSION INSTRUCTION–1899
ANGLO-AMERICAN CODE(AAC)–1908
VATICAN CODE(VC)–1927
CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE CODE(CCC)–1934
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CODE(ALA)–1949
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-I(AACR-I)–1967
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-II(AACR-II)–1978
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-II REVISED — 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification — 1876
Expansive Classificatgion — 1891
Library of congress Classification–1904
Universal Decimal Classification–1905
Subject Classification–1906
Colon Classification–1933
Bibliographic Classification–1935
Riders Internation Classification–1961
Broad System of Ordering—1978
Scientific Management Principles — F.W. Taylor
Principles of Management — Henry Fayol
Management by Objectives — Peter Drucker
Hierarchy of Need Theory — A.Maslaw
Theory X and Theory Y — D. McGregor
Motivation Hygien approach — F. Herzberg
Social Realation of Management — Elton Mayo

SOME IMPORTANT QUESTION

INDEXING SYSTEMS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTOR

CHAIN INDEX — S.R.RANGANATHAN
PRECIS–DEREK AUSTIN
POPSI–G.BHATTACHARYA
UNITERM INDEXING–M.TAUBE
KEYWORD INDEXING–H.P.LUHN
CITATION INDEXING–EUGINE GARFIELD
SUBJECT INDEXING–M.E.SEARS
SLIC INDEXING–J.R.SHARP
AUTOMATIC INDEXING–HERBERT OHLMAN
THESAURAS–P.M.ROGET
CATALOGUING CODES AND THEIR YEAR OF APPEARANCE
BRITISH MUSEUM CODE — 1841
RULES FOR DICTIONARY CATALOGUE–1876
PRUSSION INSTRUCTION–1899
ANGLO-AMERICAN CODE(AAC)–1908
VATICAN CODE(VC)–1927
CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE CODE(CCC)–1934
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CODE(ALA)–1949
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-I(AACR-I)–1967
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-II(AACR-II)–1978
ANGLO-AMERICAN CATALOGUING RULES-II REVISED — 1988
CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES AND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Dewey Decimal Classification — 1876
Expansive Classificatgion — 1891
Library of congress Classification–1904
Universal Decimal Classification–1905
Subject Classification–1906
Colon Classification–1933
Bibliographic Classification–1935
Riders Internation Classification–1961
Broad System of Ordering–1978
MANAGEMENT THEORIES AND THEIR PROFOUNDERS
Scientific Management Principles — F.W. Taylor
Principles of Management — Henry Fayol
Management by Objectives — Peter Drucker
Hierarchy of Need Theory — A.Maslaw
Theory X and Theory Y — D. McGregor
Motivation Hygien approach — F. Herzberg
Social Realation of Management — Elton Mayo


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