This refers to the kind of service that the library offers to its clients, which is adoptable and very accommodating to the needs of the clients. This covers maintaining both traditional and electronic resources, getting digital and virtual, more access to databases and electronic document delivery, use of mobile text messages, referrals, and more use of the internet.

Library managers of Philippine public libraries or state-run university libraries are interested in building a team that would be able to execute professional skills and exemplify professional knowledge in librarianship. In that context, which of the following is the basic requirement to decide in the selection process?

It is the full implementation of the Integrated Library Computerization project of The National Library. The Information Technology Center of The National Library handles all activities related to library automation. Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is currently installed at the Filipiniana Division.

These are the standard operations performed by the library staff in dealing with specific situations or providing specific service?

“To create a city with information literate individuals through adequate and sufficient information service inspired by credibility, reliability and integrity” falls under?

What will be the best strategy of an academic library manager to meet a deadline for multiple book listings needed to be updated for accreditation?

What is the title of the book that won the Newbery Medal in 2022?

Which of the following was awarded the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children in 2022?

Which of the following are the objectives of management and information system?

(i) To assist library staff in routine decision-making.

(ii) To improve accountability and control over resources.

(iii) To modify budget allocations and expenditures based on arising situations.

(iv) To improve the overall effectiveness of the library by focusing on outcomes.

(v) To generate internal and external reports.

(vi) To improve the long-term planning process.

(vii) To take over the role of the librarian in information management.

(viii) To facilitate activities related to performance measures.

“To empower staff through vitalizing workplace, providing development opportunities and employing a fair appraisal mechanism”

In a Regional Public Library, how many should be the minimum seating capacity?

In a Provincial Public Library, how many should be the minimum seating capacity?

In a Congressional Public Library, how many should be the minimum seating capacity?

In a 2nd Class or lower classed Public Library, how many is the required seating capacity?

Which of the following is an externally imposed policy?

It is a collaborative project of the national library and four other institutions - Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and the University of the Philippines System (UP System). This was approved by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) under Chairperson Virgilio Peňa.

What is the title of the Caldecott Medal Winner 2023?

What is the title of the Newberry Medal Winner 2023?

What is the title of the Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner 2023?

“Protection of historical resources and artifacts from destruction, both from deterioration and censorship” is an example of?

“To empower staff through vitalizing workplace, providing development opportunities and employing a fair appraisal mechanism”

“To implement RDA cataloging standard in every catalog record within 6 months”

This is motivation theory that focused on the motivation of employees in a work environment. It also looked at factors that made employees feel happy and satisfied and what made them feel dissatisfied. It found out that one group of factors contributed to employees feeling good about their jobs (motivators); other group of factors pertains to the conditions under which a job is performed (hygiene or maintenance).

This is said to be the final aspect of budgeting. It refers to keeping accurate records of what has been disbursed, what has been encumbered, and what remains.

This is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service, and speed.

This motivation theory states that people will be motivated to perform to reach a goal if they believe in the worth of the goal if they perceive that what they do will contribute to the achievement of that goal. It highlights how people’s goals influence their efforts. People tend to work hard when they think that working hard will either lead to desirable outcomes. It is composed of 4 elements: Valence, Expectancy, Instrumentality, and Force.

This motivation theory states that the amount of effort depends on the value of a reward plus the amount of energy a person believes is required and the probability of receiving the reward. The perceived effort and probability of actually getting a reward are in turn influenced by the experience of actual performance. If people know they can do a job or if they have done it, they have a better appreciation of the effort required and know better the probability of getting a reward.

This results from the organizing process and is the system of relations, both formally prescribed and informally developed, that governs the activities of people who are dependent on each other for the accomplishment of common objectives.

This is a budgeting technique that annually requires the organization to review and to re-evaluate each of their service programs and activities on the basis of both output measures and costs. Each activity is expressed in a decision package that is reviewed and ranked in priority order in relation to all other identified decision packages.

A kind of power that is derived from the respect and esteem accorded to an individual by virtue of personal attributes that command respect and admiration.

One thing is certain about a major disaster: not everything will be salvageable, thus it is essential to set collection priorities before the disaster strikes. In the following questions which one is the first priority?

There are four basic types of benchmarking- internal, competitive, industry and best in class. Which of the above types of benchmarking collects data on the cost of creating purchase orders in various departments in number of institution?

Learning the nature of the collection development duties is the first task for the newcomer. What is the first collection development document a new selector ought to spend time studying?

Service quality is a significant element in the academic library`s value added process in relationship with competitor information services. This customer service plan refers to the consensus that...

When the academic librarians are more involved with the classroom by participating in online discussion groups, than in the library, what do you call them?

What association came out as a result of the PAASCU conference held on Sept. 18-19, 1972

What is the latest term for serials according to ACCR2R (2002)?

When the university spent thousands of pesos on a website but wasted because it is never found and used again. As a librarian, what should you assume to avoid this incident?

What do you call the metadata element of Dublin Core which refers to a name given to the resource?

Benchmarking among academic libraries is basically a tool for either internal or external comparisons. The goal of benchmarking is to provide data that can help managers answer the following questions. Which of these questions is NOT included?

Adult services in public libraries is an inclusive term designating all services to adults. Which of the following services is not an adult service?

The Public Library Association (PLA) enumerated eight public library roles. Which of the following roles is NOT included?

Why library networking is particularly essential in todays public libraries?

What is the name of the President of the Philippines who signed the law to change the name of Bureau of Public Libraries into National Library of the Philippines

What is the library in the Philippines performs the function as document repository and free public library?

What is the most important function of a city/municipality library?

Who was the first director of the Philippine Library organized in 1909 and later called National Library of the Philippines?

Who appoints a librarian in a Municipal library?

Who appoints a librarian in a Provincial library?

Who appoints the Director of the National Library of the Philippines?

Part of the dissemination function of the special library is marketing its resources, services and facilities. What type of marketing which uses the web to advertise these resources and services?

What is the typical space requirement of the library personnel/ worker in a special library?

Special libraries are now manned by two generations of library and information professionals. Those who were born in the late seventies, eighties and 90`s are called Gen-Xers in the I.T. profession. What do you call the librarians who were born 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s

What syndrome is developed when the librarian spend too much time in the computer

As a special librarian, do you have to spoon feed your customers to satisfy their information needs?

  If an organization disciplines an employee due to his/her performance, does that mean that the organization does not care for the employees?

Where is the best place to put the OPAC inside the Special Library?

This commonly used type of scheduling in school libraries works well with pre K-1 elementary grades as it promotes reading and regular use of the library and helps with returns of materials. What do you call this library time?

Aside from collecting fines from overdue materials the school librarian can generate additional funding for the library in some other ways. What do you call these fund raising project where a book company sends cases of books that you can sell to students, teachers, parents, etc. and will give you percentage of sales in money or books

Which of the following services is rendered to the teachers in school library?

What is an economic term to indicate the cost a purchase is willing to pay in order to acquire books and services on a particular time to a given standard

___________ are assumptions that a group discovers it has as it learns to cope with problems of external adaptation and internal integration.

If an individual is assuming the position or functions of a librarian without having a valid certificate of registration, is that individual practicing librarianship illegally?

Can leaders be managers too?

In the Competencies for Philippine Librarians, which among the following is not considered a competency?

______________ refers to learning activities undertaken throughout life for the development of competencies and qualifications of the professional.

This is a formal association of libraries usually restricted to a geographical area, number of libraries, type of library, or subject interest, which is established to develop and implement resource sharing among members and thereby improve the library services and resources available to their target groups.

  This is an international standard on library performance indicator which specifies a set of 29 indicators grouped in the following areas: User satisfaction, Public services, and Technical services.

This is a system that attempts to capture the knowledge and expertise of human capital as well as documents, repositories, routines, processes, practices, and norms within and flowing into the organization by creating a computerized system to capture both the implicit and explicit knowledge within the organization.

This refers to a systematic evaluation of an individual employee’s job-related strengths and weaknesses.

What does AQRF mean in the context of CPD?

What month is considered as the Philippine Book Development Month as declared in Proclamation No. 1222 s.1998?

What is the Proclamation No. that declares the month of November 1991 and every year thereafter as “Library and Information Services Month”?

  Which among the following is not a Motivation Theory?

Which among the following is not a tool of controlling?

Who among the following is not a current member of the PRBFL CPD Council?

Who is the current Head of the National Committee on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS) of NCCA?

All organizations have

Which School of Management that has EFFICIENCY as the central them

Which of the following is a key difference between managerial and nonmanagerial employees?

Reading guidance in the school is the sum total of all activities by which the librarian attempts to encourage all pupils to read freely and widely that they may experience the satisfaction on which comes alone from reading good books. Which among these group activities is not a part of the reading program?

Literature appreciation is usually being given to

For an enrollment of 500, what is the minimum area required by the DECS Minimum Standard for Elementary and Secondary School Libraries ( 1988)?

Which among the following can be considered as the new role of a school librarian?

In weeding out, which among the following situation warrant immediate action of the librarian

Developing inventory procedure is one of the administrative routines that should not be overlooked by a library administrator/ Which among the following procedures should be the first step in conducting an inventory?

In government school libraries, request for relief from accountability should be accompanied by this requirement

Education Secretary Raul S. Roco made a pronouncement that at the beginning of the school year, students must read books other than textbooks to be promoted to the next grade or year level. The number of the books needed to be read is

In order to be promoted to the next grade or year level a student must show evidence of having read at least

Which among the following criteria for school intending to participate in the above school program will effect the school libraries.

What technology or device was develop in the libraries to allow persons with disabilities to compensate for those disabilities which includes devices such as large screen monitors, screen reading software or Braille readers?

In the library there are library staff without license who perform supportive duties, often at a high level, for professional personnel such as library associates and library technical assistants. What do you call these personnel?

Most libraries now are facing the problem of limited space so that low use materials are housed in a structure away from materials in the main library. What do you call this auxiliary library facility?

A technical library assistant primarily shelve books, put them in DDC or LC order, empties the book collection bins, helps at circulation, is able to use computers, etc. What do you call these?

What kind of planning uses the SWOT analysis?

Intranet provides quick access to basic organizational information as the means of communicating for library staff. The following are the advantages of intranet communication EXCEPT what?

It is important to understand that change is a process when discussing change. Often, change is modeled in a set of linear steps. These are: 1. Recognize that change is needed.

2. Diagnose why the change is needed.

1. 3. Set the goals for the change and

2. 4. is what?

Every manager provides guidance and inspiration to his subordinates through the leadership functions. What is this function called?

Use of the library and use of Internet were inversely related to age. Which of the following runs parallel to this statement?

Librarians understanding of information technology makes him well suited in dealing with the technological aspects of creating websites. What do you call this role?

Characteristics of management describing it as being not directly visible but its presence is noticed in the form of concrete results.

Departmentalization covers the issue of centralization. Which best illustrates centralization?

What would be the best scenario where autocratic leadership will be the most effective leadership style?

In the movement he pioneered, it poses that if employees are happy, they are able to perform to the fullest. It also encouraged development of social groups that primes employees’ participation in management, and allow democracy within the organization.

Who developed the study dubbed the “science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from ill-directed and inefficient motions”? The main aim of this study is to find the scheme that least wastes labor.

IFLA offered this as a series of ethical propositions for the guidance of individual librarians as well as other information workers, and for the consideration of the Library and Information Associations when creating or revisiting their own codes.

Who is the Newbery Medal Winner 2022? An award for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature?

Who was awarded the Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults?

Who was the illustrator of the book that received the Caldecott medal in 2022?

A planning technique wherein the library manager predicts based on the assumption about the future.

Which of the following new normal set ups were implemented by library managers to continue the provision of information resources through restructuring the mode of library circulation? Also allowing users from remote and isolated areas to use library materials and return books without the need of visiting the physical library?

Which of the following new normal setups were implemented by library managers to assure the safety of employees and clients of the library while maintaining the delivery of services without impeding the basic tasks and functions of the library staff?

Which of the following pair is correct?

It is the analysis, planning, implementation, and control of carefully formulated programs designed to bring about voluntary exchange of values with target markets for the purpose of achieving the organization's objectives.*

The measurement and correction of performance in order to make sure that enterprise objectives and the plans devised to attain them are being accomplished.

A head librarian repeatedly grants rewards to staff members who performs at an exemplary level each year. What theory is reflected in this behavior?

Forecasting strategy that searches for signs as indicators of the future events.

The experimental and applied science devoted to systematically observing, understanding and predicting the behavior of purposeful (e.g. worker-machine) systems.

Which of the following is the first award of its kind that recognizes the country’s best published children’s books, which include both works of fiction and nonfiction?

An organization is

The accreditation of curricular programs in the Philippines, particularly for state universities and colleges, is the main function of this accrediting agency.

Synonymous with part time faculty.

Which of the following is not an immersive technology mentioned in the 2021 Environmental Scan of Academic Libraries by ACRL?

Third to fifth class cities should have

The National Children’s Book Day is also celebrated to commemorate the publication of Jose Rizal’s The Monkey and the Turtle in the

This refers to a librarian from another country, that allows Filipino librarians to practice in their respective territories and having similar privileges as ours and may be allowed to take the exam.

The principle that states that “there is a limit to the number of subordinates a manager can effectively supervise, but the exact number will depend on the impact of underlying factors”.

Funds to acquire library resources, equipment, and furniture are included in the ________.

Policies that emanate from responses to given situations are ___.

  The first elected executive board President of the ASEAN Public Libraries Information Network comes from this country.

The National Children’s Book Day is celebrated every ____ Tuesday of July.

Mr. Terrence Abainza is a senior library assistant. He belongs to the

The librarian of ABC College Library walks discreetly in the reference area. This is called

What library became the first regular public library established by the Americans during their stay?

Examining reading levels and interest areas are part of this process.

  Which of the following is true about the earliest phases of Philippine public libraries?

Which among the sentences/phrases below is not included in the Code of Ethics for Philippine Librarians?

Developing and implementing curriculum-based school library services and programs that support teaching and learning in school libraries is an example of?

______________ refers to learning activities undertaken throughout life for the development of competencies and qualifications of the professional.

The first public library in the Philippines which offered the 24-hour service.

This consortium which was founded in 1987 is exclusive for libraries which serve Business Administration faculty and students.

The Wales Library mainly serves the information and research needs of the faculty members of a unit in the Wales Community College. It is a

Comparing the school library collection to bibliographies is an example of ___.

Two examples are EBSCO and ProQuest.

Also known as the “nucleus” of the Philippine Library back in 1901.

Which of the following contained the first set of standards for information literacy?

The current CHED memorandum for academic libraries.

Which of the following established many of the basic ideas about school libraries and the role of school librarian, and provided a model for states to follow in developing standards of their own?

This is where the first congressional district library in the Philippines can be found.

The biggest and widest national academic and research libraries consortia in the Philippines.

Which of the following is an example of “providing intellectual access to information”?

  A 3-year leadership program of the National Library of the Philippines Public Libraries Division which aims to empower public librarians in the country.

  What is the Accredited Integrated Professional Organization (AIPO) of librarians in the Philippines?

The local chief executive of the local government unit is also the ________ of the public library.

The 2021 World Book Capital.

“Acting as a change agent” is an example of?

This area of concern is mentioned under the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the 2021 Environmental Scan of Academic Libraries by ACRL.

The basic assumption of the Scientific Management Movement is that workers are primarily motivated by ___.

The public libraries of the Philippines originated here