Quiz
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.
July 31st, 2007 at 9:34 am
Oh frabjous joy! I am not alone! I scored 18 of 20 – no useless degrees, just useful ones!
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Oh, dang! I scored 19 out of 20 (no PhD). I do have a BA & MA and have been teaching English at the community college level for the last 20 years. I want to change careers! Me, a librarian? I hadn’t thought about it that much, but I do like looking for answers and teaching the students how to use databases.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I am a freakin library aid in school! It’s so boring! They brag on me and say I do such a great job. Belive me it ain’t easy from cards getting lost, kids not putting the book where they got, so many books being out of order, cards getting lost, and having to put nonfiction books up! ~omg~ It’s what i get for being smart~ p.s They asked me to be a libary aid I did not sign up!!! WOW!! I know!Yeah best bet don’t be a libraian unless you really like books. I am in there everyday and aint readbut like three flippin books. Well thanx for reading this boring commment!
December 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
15 and in MLIS school.
Do you get more points if you own more than one cat?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
15/20… Not yet old enough to have a degree of any sort, and no idea what Ubuntu boxes are. But still, my word I wish there was library school in England (is there?)
January 11th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Yes, I sorted M&Ms by color as a child. Do I get points for continuing to do so into adulthood? I got 16 points and would have scored 17 if I thought of English as a useless undergraduate degree as some poor fools do. And I should get extra points for multiple cats.
As a point of pride, I would add that I have never dressed in separates that are kind of all the same color (like, say, purples that don’t match). Unless the mismatch was meant to be chic.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
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.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:54 am
I only got 6.
But that’s ok, because I do not believe that Librarian’s are geeky!!!