What Leadership Skill Tends to Rule Your Decisions? - A Quiz for Child/Youth Librarians

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Leadership Skills for Child/Youth Librarians

Discover your leadership style with our engaging quiz designed specifically for child and youth librarians. This quiz presents real-world scenarios you may encounter in your role, challenging you to make decisions and reflect on your leadership skills.

Key Features:

12 thought-provoking questions
Assess your decision-making style
Identify your strengths and areas for improvement

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by GuidingLight42

A coworker forgot to book a room for their story time and the kids are arriving in 20 minutes. What do you do?

Offer your room, not many people show up for the teen book club anyway.

Let them sort themselves out with admin, you have your own program to worry about.

Try to help them find another space they can use in the library, maybe they can tell the story outside since the weather is nice.

Guess their story time is cancelled.

You’re telling a story but only the child of one of the most outspoken parent, who happens to be a major benefactor of the library, seems to be enjoying themselves. Do you

Change story and risk the child and parent throwing a fit because you didn’t cater to them.

Stick to the current story, the other kids can survive for another few minutes.

You can deal with this for today and figure out a new plan next week for storytime so everyone has fun.

Time for another activity that everyone loves!

A new student in your school has been homeschooled. Her parents have requested that you label books to avoid their child reading “inappropriate” material. She believes they should have age ratings like movies do. How will you handle this?

Explain that the books are all deemed child appropriate by the school board and that there are no issues for people reading them.

Calmly inform the parent that if they have issues with the content of the library they can take present their case to the school board.

Personally ensure that the child is reading things you deem “appropriate” throughout the school year.

Create a new system to organize the books according to age rating according to the parents demands.

An annoyed parent comes to your desk during rush hours complaining that their child's jacket was stolen while the child visited the library with their class. What will you do?

Take time out of your schedule to help them look for the jacket.

Ask if they’ve checked the lost and found at both the library and the school.

Direct them towards the coworker who was responsible for the class visit.

Help them check the lost and found as well as contacting security to see if the jacket was merely lost.

A local citizen is objecting to a book in the library’s collection, what would you do?

Organise an event around banned books and their history to educate the patrons on why it is important to have controversial books.

People should be able to read what they want, explain that they can simply not read the book they object to.

Find out why they don’t want the book in the collection and try to address their concerns.

Write down the book title and information on why they object to the book and pass the information onto the relevant people.

A patron complains because there are no free computers available. You notice that some kids are on Facebook, while others are typing papers and doing research. What do you do?

Ask if any users are willing to give up their computers so that others can use them.

Inform the patron that there is a reserve service for the computers and ask if they want to reserve one for a later time.

Ask those using the computers for social media to give up their spot.

Organise a new and better system for computer usage at the library. It might not be there right now, but it will help solve later problems.

You’re working at a busy reference desk and are slightly overwhelmed. You have one person standing in front of you needing help researching water pollution in local rivers, you have an instant message chat question, the telephone is ringing, and the printer is jammed. Which do you deal with first?

The one who came first.

The one which will take the least time.

Enlist the aid of a coworker.

Answer the phone and ask them to hold while you deal with the others.

You’re running a little late and head to the room you booked for a storytime program just in time for it to start—and find that the group that had it earlier are still set up. What do you do?

Ask a coworker for help—you’ll do him or her a favour later.

That would never happen. I always check the room at least ten minutes before a program is scheduled to start.

Guess what? Storytime is outside today!

Ask the parents to help as they arrive for storytime. You take the kids while they tidy the room.

A patron complains to you because of the level of noise in the library--some children are playing loudly and a baby is crying. What do you do?

Have a few pairs of headphones people can check out so they can block out noise.

Organise an activity to distract the children.

Ask the parents to quiet their children, this is a library and not a playground after all.

Suggest they book a conference room so that they can work in isolation.

A coworker approaches you and asks if you can talk about a personal issue, but you have several deadlines coming up and don’t really have time. What do you do?

Multitask! Listen to them while you both set up a room for an event.

Step into a quieter area and hear them out. Listen actively and empathetically and help them come to a solution.

You are coworkers not friends, you aren’t required to help everyone with everything. Take care of your own deadlines first.

Tell them that you are busy now, but schedule a time to talk later.

Which role do you usually take on in group projects?

Making decisions.

Organizing and planning out the project.

Managing relationships between team members.

Problem solving throughout the project.

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