Quiz
on Mar 25 in Favorite Posts, Librarianship, Library school, Michigan by Erica FirmentI did a talk at a convention in Detroit a few weeks ago in which I encouraged people to become librarians. I started out with this quiz. Now it’s your turn.
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Am I Geeky enough to be a Librarian?
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Yes | No |
| 1. I enjoy acronyms. | ||
| 2. I own a cat. | ||
| 3. When confronted with a pile of books I think "Hmm…first I would sort by author, then by title? | ||
| 4. I am obsessive enough to appreciate the difference between 345.065 and 345.605. | ||
| 5. I possess a useless undergraduate degree. | ||
| 6. Being surrounded by books makes me lather with delight. | ||
| 7. The idea of someone preventing me from reading Orwell because they don’t like it strikes me as Orwellian. | ||
| 8. I am comfortable with the Internets. | ||
| 9. If my house caught on fire, one of the things I would grab is my favorite book. | ||
| 10. I possess a useless graduate degree. | ||
| 11. I can daisy-chain a herd of Ubuntu boxes faster than you can say FreeBSD. | ||
| 12. These kids today. I swear. If they would just read a damn book once in awhile, they wouldn’t be blowing each other up so much. | ||
| 13. I could find out the middle name of your high school boyfriend with just ten minutes on the Internet. | ||
| 14. I could find out the first line of A Tale of Two Cities with just ten seconds on the Internet. | ||
| 15. I know the first line of A Tale of Two Cities. | ||
| 16. I am a disenfranchised intellectual. | ||
| 17. The idea of arming the public with knowledge appeals to me more than, say, arming them with pitchforks and torches. | ||
| 18. I would rather do something cool than get rich. | ||
| 19. I possess a useless doctoral degree. | ||
| 20. I can say "Colon classification" without laughing. |
Scoring
Under 5 = I think the “We hate libraries” meeting is down the hall.
5-10 = You are geeky, but can you HANDLE the acronyms?
10-15 = I’ve got some library school applications under my desk you big dork
15-20 = Quit your job immediately! Grab the nearest child and teach him to read! Oh, and start stocking up on acid-free paper.
Scored 11. I work at a rural libray and have something called a Community Librarian Certificate – no useless degrees here! As for sorting Smarties – two of my now adult children are obsessive in that way. My daughter spent a ridiculous amount of time on her holiday a few years ago organising 200 songs into a play list for her MP3 player. But, go figure, they are both chefs.
Sorry to post twice – missed Hannah’s question. There are several library schools in England – Manchester, Newcastle and others. You could be really exotic and go to Edinburgh.
I only got 6.
But that’s ok, because I do not believe that Librarian’s are geeky!!!