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[dream_labyrinth]

The "Are you a librarian" test on OKCupid said I am an aspiring librarian.
Well, instead of asking for LoC subject headings and Dewey numbers, and the ALA, how about asking about things like RVK, KAB, UDC, and the like? Librarianship does exist outside of the USA.

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[lucie-p.livejournal.com]

Librarianship does exist outside of the USA.

Indeed. But quizzes apparently do not, or are not supposed to. I am at a point where I don't click on any quizzes any longer, am fed up a bit with the Americanism in most of them. *sigh*

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

*nods*
There was one, "What would you have been in NAzi Germany" or something, where the author had put a kind of preface telling the readers how happy he was that a horrible country like Germany would never be reunited again.
Er... ooooookay?

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

*slapshead* Oh my, how could I forget...

[holyrood.livejournal.com]

the person who wrote that got the same flack on some LJ library community. they tried to defend their totally US-centric, public-library-centric quiz by saying "well, these are the things all librarians *should* be interested in." what a poor excuse for ignoring all other facets of librarianship!

i think you should write the same quiz but include really long complex german military library knowledge. because it would be fun! and all the US librarians could suck it.

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

*LOL*
In the classification system used by the Information Service of the Bundeswehr, what is the correct number for the Italian front in the first World War?
a) MIH 743
b) MIG 520
c) MIH 008
d) MIG 600

Which computer system is used by a majority of scientific libraries?
a) PICA
b) Libero
c) Allegro
d) Aleph

Where was the first public library founded?
a) in Großenhain near Leipzig
b) in Hamburg
c) in Berlin
d) in Munich

The most fun, however, would be library history. After all, we had several centuries of library history before America was even (re-)discovered.

Which National Library is the oldest?
a) The Library of Congress (USA)
b) the British Library (Great Britain)
c) La Bibliothèque Nationale (France)
d) Die Deutsche Bücherei (Germany)

[holyrood.livejournal.com]

ok, i'm gonna try (i got like 40% on the US-centric quiz, library history dates bore the pants off me).
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. d


how'd i do?

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

1. b
2. a
3. a
4. c

Well, one out of four isn't all that bad! ;-)
Interesting that you got that weird library history question right.
The army classification uses basically a system, where the letters do have some meaning.
MIG is all military history (MIlitärGeschichte), the MIG 500s is WWI (MIG 600 is time between WWs, 700 is WWII, 800 is after WWII)
MIH would be the army (Heer in German, so it's MI to show that it's a military group and H to say it's concerning the army. MIL is air force (Luftwaffe), MIM is navy (Marine), MIP is military and security politics.)
Similarly, ALL is general stuff (Allgemeines), LFT is air transportation / flight technology and all that stuff (LuftFahrT), MAT is Mathematics and so on.

[holyrood.livejournal.com]

i guessed on all the questions...#3 i got right because i picked the most specific answer. and i figured if you went to the trouble to make the special giant B letter, there must be a reason!

thanks for the info on classifications for army stuff. that's a military-specific classification, right? like a regular german university library or public library may own the same items but they'd be classified differently?

[dream-labyrinth.livejournal.com]

Yes.
Actually, in Germany just about every library has its own system. Especially the university libraries. The public libraries have two or three most common systems. In the universities, there are some systems that are common, like the "Regensburger Verbundklassifikation" developed for the university of Regensburg but now used for many Bavarian university lbraries, or the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification), some use Dewey.
But the branch library where I did my first internship was actually three libraries put together, and every one had several systems. So you had six or seven different classification systems in one library. They never went through the trouble of re-classifying old stuff when they invented a new classification, so in order to know where to find something you had to guess when it had been acquired by the library.