1/12/2006
are YOU a librarian?
J took the librarian aptitude test that’s been floating around the biblioblogosphere (I intended to comment on her post instead of making one of my own, but I’ve been having trouble connecting to the Harvard server lately). I took in when it appeared on LiveJournal, and like J, I didn’t do so hot. I got Aspiring Librarian.
I attribute it to some of the same things J mentions, and a few more. While I catalog, only one small section of my collection is classified by Dewey, and none of it is classified by LCC. Additionally, I quit the ALA last year because of a certain disillusionment with their direction, and with the fact that I’d decided special librarianship was my chosen career path. A lot of the questions were ALA questions, and while the Library Bill of Rights and Code of Ethics is important, and I certainly don’t intend to trivialize them, they aren’t issues I come into frequent contact with in my position.
Some other complaints was that it was highly U.S.-based, which, with all those ALA questions is certainly the truth.
Filed under: Librarianship
