FAQs for written exam and viva-voce in the field of librarianship: focused on private academic sectors in Bangladesh

The procedure of job searching was started after seating for my Master's examination in Information Science and Library Management in 2016 from the University of Rajshahi. Over these years, I have faced almost nine interviews and most of the organization I had called for a written exam or interview are NGO knowledge centre, Higher Secondary, and Tertiary educational organizations.

Here are FAQs for the written exam and viva-voce in the field of librarianship focused on private academic sectors in Bangladesh that I had faced. I have classified the questions into two sections: Administrative Questions and Subjective questions both for written and viva.

Administrative Questions

• Introduce Yourself!!
• Why do you want to work with us? 
• What role can you play in your position? 
• Why are you leaving your current job?
• Do you have any limitations from your family? 
• What are your salary expectations? 
• How would you manage traveling to the office?
• How can you assure you will serve us for a long tenure? 

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Subjective Questions for written examination and Viva-voce 

• Responsibilities of Library Circulation Officer.
• Standard and Canons of E-library.
• ICT in library functioning and user satisfaction.
• Standard and protocol of e-library.
• Write an Inter-office memo.
• What is Zotero?
• What is Discovery tool?
• What is Drupal?
• Social networking tools and their usage in library services.
• What is Research4Life?
• User engagement measures to take in the 21st-century library.
• What is Integrated Library System?
• KOHA module (specifically Which place for the title).
• Name of some architecture databases.
• What is The Electronic Library?
• What does Fair use mean? 
• APA stands for.
• FOSS acronym.

• OER acronym.
• What is UDL? 
• What is Research Carrel?
• What is Science Direct and Elsevier? 
• The most significant development in the library and its impacts on the library.
• Qualities of a good librarian and why do you think you meet the criteria? 
• What i the h-index and the formula. 
• Name four reference style and reference management software. 
• What is Abstract? Features of an abstract.
• Section of a library and their works.
• Open Access.
• Book-entry/ issue return of book/ Copy cataloging in KOHA.
• How would you define the library without using the word "library"?
• Institutional repository
• MyAthens/ OpenAthens
• MARC21.
• EZproxy.
• Which website do you prefer for reading books.
• DOAJ.
• names of some Full-text database. How this can help the library. 
• Institutional repository. How it can contribute to the institute. 
• Banner in Word.
• Presentation in PowerPoint.
• Sales report in Excel.
• Koha Entry of a book and save it.
• Html coding for a website.

Good wishes to you on your new journey ahead ALL. I hope, this will help you in the long run. Moreover, be confident with yourself and keep updated about the new techniques and technologies in our field of study.