Comments on: Assistant librarian?

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:31:24 +0000

One of my grad school professors told us that if you have to guess a year that something important happened in librarianship, always guess 1876.

By: Ruth Ellen

Ruth Ellen — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:49:53 +0000

85%. But I KNOW that I got at least all but one right. (One I wasn’t sure of.) So I’m not convinced of the accuracy of the test, especially since it doesn’t give the answers that the test-makers believe are correct.

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:19:45 +0000

I also got 75%, which I decided, based on no evidence, must be a reflection of the 75% of library school I have completed. I, too, was irritated that I couldn’t figure out which ones I’d missed–but not so irritated that I am going to devote time to tracking down all the answers.

By: walt

walt — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:02:21 +0000

A number of the questions speak fairly directly to my experience and sheer longevity in the field (my ALA 100th Anniversary mug from 1976, having dealt with MARC for 30++ years, and a few others). It wouldn’t be hard to formulate an equally or more relevant test where you’d score twice as high as I would.

By: tangognat

tangognat — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:25:39 +0000

I think I scored much worse, around 60%. So much for library school! I don’t think there was a way of displaying the answers you missed, I didn’t see it at least.