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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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[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.