09/06/2018
LIS STUDENTS' COVERT DICTIONARY
SERIES 3 : EMPHASIS ON CATALOGUING TERMS.
1. The student who never allows you to take his or her book away from his/her presence/room - Reserve Unit Librarian.
2. The student who starts controversial issues in the class but never takes responsibility for the noise such issues generate or damages caused - Work Under Editorial Direction.
3. Student with boyfriend/ girlfriend in all the departments in the school - National Union Catalogue.
4. Student who coordinates and delivers the best tutorials in the department - Teacher Librarian.
5. Student having two or more girlfriends/boyfriend's in the same class - Work of Shared Responsibility.
6. Student who has bleached so much that he/she now has different skin complexions - Work of Mixed Responsibility.
7. The guy/girl who always rephrases what someone says about you - Adapter.
8. Lecturer who can teach all the courses in the department from year 1 to final year classes - Universal Decimal Classifaction Scheme.
9. Going to the toilet - Weeding.
10. Eating - Acquisition.
11. The guy/girl who is a specialist in giving others nicknames - The Classifier.
12. The lecturer who must market his/her book or another book at all cost even if it is unrelated to the course being taught - Vendor.
13. The student who dresses shabbily - Barefoot Librarian (Apologies to Barefoot Librarians,but that is the only part of librarianship where your clients determine what you wear).
14. The worst talkative in the class - Oral Archive.
15. The guy/girl who must mutilate anybook he/she borrows - Agent of Deterioration.
16. The student who is always online even during classes - Online Public Access Catalogue.
17. The student who visits the boutique regularly for shopping - Collection Development Librarian.
18. The student who is always bringing breaking news to the class - Current Awareness Services Librarian.
19. That lazy guy/girl who never copies notes and time tables but takes snapshots of other people's notes. - Reprographer
20. One who has a traditional African name but prefers being called the English version of the name. E.g" Ngozi ? Don't call me that. My name is Blessing." - Parallel Title.
21. Guy/girl who doesn't talk much in class but always on point with relevant information - Abstract.
22. The one who will always remind us of what we've almost forgotten. - Archive
