Awards for The Great LOC Collection Game(tm!)

Category 1--breadth:

Have at least one book from each of the 21 letter categories: The SILVER LOC.

Have at least one book from 200 letter pairs (i.e. QC, PR): TheE GOLDEN LOC.

Have at least one book from ALL letter pairs: The PLATINUM LOC

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Category 2--expertise:

More than 20 books under any Letter category: Dilettante in that subject

More than 100 books under any Letter category: Archivist in that subject

More than 1000 books under any Letter category: Mr. Atoz in that subject

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Category 3--obsessiveness:

You get awards for number of books in a two letter category. Like QC or AG.

20 books: Garnet
50 books: Amethyst
100 books: Topaz
200 books: Ruby
500 books: Sapphire
1000 books: Diamond

Let the fun begin!

You should post this to the LC Classification challenge group!

Breadth:

Personally I'd set the Golden and Platinum classifications in category one farther apart -- there only are 220 total letter pairs, after all. (Besides, at 97, I'd be within striking distance of Golden if it was at 100, and there's a massive distance between silver and golden as is!)

Expertise:

Dilettante in D (history)
Dilettante in E (history of America)
Dilettante in F (local history of the Americas)
Dilettante in G (Geography, Anthropology, Recreation)
Dilettante in H (Social Sciences)

I'm going to skip P, since it's so dominated by fiction that it's not really representative or interesting here.

Archivist in Q (Science)
Dilettante in T (Technology)

Category 3:

E and F are degenerate cases here, lacking the two-letter categories.

Garnet for GV
Garnet for HQ

Skipping P again

Garnet for QA
Garnet for QB
Garnet for QC
Garnet for QH
Amethyst for QL
Garnet for TX

Thanks for joining in! I was afraid it would seem rude if I advertised in another fellow's group. As for GOLD and PLATINUM LOCS, you're absolutely right.

Let's make GOLD 100 and PLATINUM 220.

What should we do about E and F?

It wasn't rude - that's how I found you! There are so many groups, it's hard to find ones to join. This challege will prod me to get all my books loaded into LT faster so I can see what I've got.

Question - do we have to own the books, or have just read them? I have so many, I've stopped buying and started going to the library - but I still enter my library books as I read them.

Ignore my question - it's a COLLECTION game - duh!

Well, it's a collection game so I was thinking in terms of collecting.

On the other hand, you could argue that library books you've read are in your meta-collection.

Bottom line, if it's fun, do it! :)

Do we get little icons to put on our profile pages? ;) I hope we don't need to have read them yet.

My Collection Ratings:

Breadth: No medal: only 18 of the letter categories

Expertise:
B: Dilettante
D: Dilettante
G: Archivist
N: Archivist
P (n/a) lorax's reason is good
Q: Archivist
R: Dilettante
S: Dilettante
T: Archivist
Z: Dilettante

Obsessiveness:
BL: Garnet
DS: Garnet
GR: Garnet
GV: Amethyst
NC: Amethyst
PE: Garnet
Skipped the PNs, PRs, PSs and PZs
QA: Garnet
QB: Garnet
SF: Garnet
TT: Ruby
TX: Garnet

This will take a while for me to sort out. It appears that I have a large number of books without a recorded LC number. But! I surprised myself by realizing that I deserve a

Breadth:
Golden LOC (under the revised rule)

Expertise:
A - 13
B - 119 Archivist
C - 34 Dilettante
D - 180 Archivist
E - 64 Dilettante
F - 31 Dilettante
G- 97 Dilettante
H - 65 Dilettante
J - 5
K - 4
L - 8
M - 22
N - 41 Dilettante
P - 943 Archivist
Q - 52 Dilettante
R - 34 Dilettante
S - 45 Dilettante
T - 193 Archivist
U - 4
V -1
Z - 20 Dilettante

Obsessiveness:
AC - 5, AE - 1, AG - 4, AM - 2, AP 1
B - 10,BC - 5,BD- 5
BF - 32 Garnet
BJ - 11
BL - 26 Garnet
BM - 3,BP 2,BQ 8,BR - 7,BS - 1,BT - 3,BV - 3, BX 3
CB - 10, CC - 4, CE 1, CR - 1, CT - 18
D - 43 Garnet
DA - 29 Garnet
DC - 10, DD - 2, DE - 1, DF - 11, DG - 18, DH 1, DK 3, DL 2, DP 3, DR 3
DS - 38 Garnet
DT 10, Du 6
E - 64 Amethyst
F - 31 Garnet
G - 38 Garnet
GC 1, Gn 5, Gr 8, GT 11,
GV 24 Garnet
HB 2, HD 7, HE 1, HF 2, HG 1, HM 4, HN2
HQ - 31 Garnet
HV 14, HX 1
JC 4, JZ 1
KF 4
LA 1, LB 5, LC 1, LD 1
M 1, ML 16, MT 5
N 8, NA 2, NB 3, NC 1, ND 12, NK 14, NX 1
P 3,
PA - 20 Garnet
PB 2, PC 5,
PE - 23 Garnet
PF 1, PG 10, PH 4, PIR 1, PJ 5, PK 4, PL 9
PN - 93 Amethyst
PQ - 76 Amethyst
PR - 266 Ruby
PS - 319 Ruby
PT - 15
PZ - 87 Amethyst
Q 6, QA 4, QB 7, QC 7, QE 3, QH 13, QK 4,QL 8
R 1, RA - 6, RB 1, RC 10, RM 16
S - 1
SB - 35 Garnet
SD 1, SF 4, SH 4
T 4, TH 6, TK 1, TL 3, TN 1, TP 5, TR 3, TT 10
TX - 160 Topaz
U 3, UB 1
VM 1
Z - 20 Garnet

Yeah!

I'm a long way from a Platinum LOC. If nothing else this little exercise will help me get better organized and clean up some loose ends.

I decided I'd better stick some numbers in there to keep track.

First, here are the numbers (I probably miscounted a few times, but I doubt by much):
A 3 (AC, AP)
B 72 (B, BD, BF, BH, BJ, BL, BM, BP, BQ, BR, BS, BT, BX)
C 15 (CB, CC, CS, CT)
D 135 (D{21}, DA, DB, DC, DD, DF, DG, DL, DP, DS{53}, DT, DU)
E 146
F 56
G 187 (G, GB, GF, GN, GR, GT, GV{168})
H 321 (H, HB{20}, HC{25}, HD{113}, HE, HF, HG, HJ, HM, HN{24}, HQ{35}, HS, HT, HV{21}, HX{33})
J 44 (JA, JC, JF, JK, JL, JN, JQ, JV, JX)
K 25 (KF{23}, KFC, KZ)
L 36 (LA, LB{23}, LC, LD)
M 51 (M{30}, ML, MP, MT)
N 25 (N, NC, ND)
P 526 (P, PA, PC, PE, PG{20}, PJ, PL, PN{55}, PQ{45}, PR{102}, PS{215}, PT{22}, PZ{24})
Q 70 (Q, QA, QB, QC, QD, QE, QH, QL, QP)
R 13 (R, RA, RC, RG, RM)
S 2 (SB, SF)
T 25 (T, TA, TG, TL, TR, TS, TX)
U 9 (U, UA, UB, UG)
V 0
Z 1 (+47, incomplete set of Harvard Classics filed under Z)

Main categories: 20/21 (I guess I need to buy one of my 5 wishlisted books on maritime history)
Sub-categories: 116
Main categories >20 lorax::B, F, J, K, L, M, N, Q, T, Z
Main categories >100:D, E, G, H, P
Sub categories >20 lorax::D, HB, HC, HN, HQ, HV, HX, KF, LB, M, PG, PQ, PT, PZ, Z
Sub categories >50:DS, PN
Sub categories >100:GV, HD, PR
Sub categories >200:PS

Sub-dividing E and F is a problem. For E you could go by 100s, although it's a bit arbitrary. But with F that method would give 35 sub-categories, which seems like too many to me.

Whomever figures out a good solution for E and F gets *two* Tootsie Pops.

How about we use their top outline levels and assign our own letter codes for the game?

EA (11-143) America
EB (151-904) United States
FA (1-975) US Local History
FB (1101-1145.2) British America
FC (1170) French America
FD (1201-3799) Latin/Spanish America

*throws out tootsie pops*

That was fun! :)

Breadth:
Silver LOC
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Expertise:
Archivist in:
B (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion)
P (Language and Literature)

Dilettante in:
D (Non-American History)
E (American History)
H (Social Sciences)
Q (Science)
R (Medicine)
T (Technology/Engineering)
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Obsessiveness:
Amethyst in:
BF (Psychology)
PS (American Literature)

Garnet in:
B (History and Systems of Philosophy)
BL (Religions, Mythology, Rationalism)
E (General American History)
PG (Slavic Languages and Literature)
PN (Literature, Literary History, & Collections)
PR (English Literature)
PZ (Children's Literature)

It does appear that I do have the cookbooks going on. No wonder my kitchen mate complains. You would think I could generate some food with all that culinary advice.

LOL varielle! I too have a book case full of cook books that I read but never actually use. I enjoy reading the recipies and imagining how good everything would taste - but if I cooked it, it would not turn out right. So I don't bother - just dream!

Breadth - Golden LOC (revised rule)
At least one book in 128 letter pairs

Expertise
Archivist in:
D (General and Old World History)
G (Geography, Anthropology and Recreation)
N (Fine Arts)
P (Language and Literature)
S (Agriculture)
T (Technology/Engineering)

Dilettante in:
B (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion)
C (Auxiliary Sciences of History)
E (American History)
H (Social Sciences)
M (Music)
Q (Science)
R (Medicine)
U (Military Science)
Z (Bibliography and Library Science)

Obsessiveness
CR 39 Garnet
DA 288 Ruby
DC 23 Garnet
DG 20 Garnet
DT 45 Garnet
E 23 Garnet
G 22 Garnet
GT 236 Ruby
HQ 24 Garnet
N 56 Amethyst
ND 74 Amethyst
NK 230 Ruby
PA 20 Garnet
PC 23 Garnet
PE 32 Garnet
PJ 24 Garnet
PN 27 Garnet
PR 102 Topaz
QL 28 Garnet
SB 98 Amethyst
TR 23 Garnet
TS 29 Garnet
TT 264 Ruby
TX 103 Topaz
Z 55 Amethyst

But about 26% of my library is unclassified, so there's work to do!

To see a chart of the main category distribution, go here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/3973759898_ab0ca74f54_o.jpg

Very nice!

I'm still inputting my library. It will be a bit :)

I just stumbled upon this thread and thought I'd post an update. Counting only books I currently own since it is after all a "collecting" game:

Breadth:

GOLDEN LOC (112 pairs or single-letter classifications)

Expertise:

B: 23 (Dilettante)
D: 50 (Dilettante)
E: 24 (Dilettante)
F: 36 (Dilettante)
G: 70 (Dilettante)
H: 57 (Dilettante)
P excluding the fiction categories (so counting P-PF and PM): 40 (Dilettante)
Q: 293 (Archivist)
S: 25 (Dilettante)
T: 104 (Archivist)

Obsessiveness, again excluding fiction categories:

E: 24 (Garnet)
F: 36 (Garnet)
G: 22 (Garnet) - that's plain G
GV: 32 (Garnet)
HQ: 30 (Garnet)
QA: 50 (Amethyst)
QB: 39 (Garnet)
QC: 31 (Garnet)
QH: 32 (Garnet)
QL: 99 (Amethyst; a near-miss on Topaz)
TX: 58 (Amethyst)

Clearly I need to go buy one of the dozen or so QL on my wishlist. I seem to be more for breadth than depth, which isn't too surprising given that I'm doing both the LC and Dewey challenges.

Very cool. I am glad to see this still going. :)

I'm still debating whether or not to add my science fiction digests to my collection.