[Publib] Belated Friday: Favorite Interview Questions

[Jane Carle]

Thank you -- These are the best questions yet! Jane



--- Joe Schallan <jschallan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My favorite interview questions:
> 
> 1. Your well-equipped janitor's closet
> contains cup, bell, and taze plungers.
> Which is the best to use on the clog in
> the toilet in the women's restroom?
> 
> 2. On which day is your OPAC server most likely
> to crash?  How likely is it that your system
> administrator will be available to fix it?
> 
> 3. More is understood about the behavior of
> subatomic particles than about the behavior of
> HVAC. If the building thermostat is set to
> 72 F., what is the temperature in the staff
> workroom?
> 
> 4. You have missed the deadline for a project
> for your director.  Where is the best place
> to hide from her?
> 
> 5. A patron is disgusted and can't believe
> that your branch library doesn't have a
> book she needs, and wonders what she is paying
> taxes for. What is the book she can't
> believe you don't have?
> 
> 6. How many badges and/or IDs do you need to
> wear to get people to stop asking if you
> work here?
> 
> 7. What is the most universally useful tool
> for working on library computers?
> 
> 8. What, with 100-percent certainty, is the
> least busiest time on the reference desk?
> 
> 9. It is two minutes until closing. A patron
> tells you he just needs to print a few pages
> from the computer. How many pages does he
> need to print?
> 
> 10.  A patron sits down at a public PC and
> logs on, and is immediately confronted by
> a desktop littered with pornographic images
> left by the previous user.  Who is the
> astonished patron's employer?
> 
> - - - - - - -
> 
> ANSWERS
> 
> 1.  The bell plunger.
> 
> 2.  Saturday. There is no likelihood that
> your system administrator will be
> available to fix it, because he is attending
> a SysAdmin Conference in Saskatoon.
> 
> 3.  49 degrees F.
> 
> 4.  Any public service area.
> 
> 5.  Green, Samuel S., Frederick Taylor, and
> Alma Werfel, MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF MEMBRANE
> PERMEABILITY FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH TERATOGENIC
> AROMATIC HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS, Berlin and New
> York: Academia Arcana Press, 2007, 1437 pp.,
> $495.00.
> 
> 6.  The number of badges needed for the desired
> effect is not known.  Experiments conducted
> in a double-blind study at the University of
> Washington I-School involved as many as 37
> badges on a single librarian, with no
> discernible decrease in the frequency of
> "do you work here" inquiries.
> 
> 7.  A dinner knife. ("Letter opener" or "jumbo
> paper clip" also acceptable.)
> 
> 8.  Whenever a manager appears, especially one
> with authority to fund or defund your position.
> 
> 9.  He needs to print 178 pages, most of them
> in PDF with heavy graphics.
> 
> 10.  The astonished patron's employer is the
> city council.  If he does not work for the city
> council, then he works for the local FOX
> television affiliate, or is a close relative
> of Dr. James Dobson.
> 
> 
> 
> Feel free to use!
> 
> --Joe Schallan, Phx
> 
> 
> 
>      
>
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Jane R. Carle, Director
  Kirtland Public Library
  Kirtland, Ohio
 



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