 Librarianship is a noble profession.
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Subject: New comment on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?"
To: "RajLibrarian D" <lotus5673@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 12:16 PM
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- qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?"
Rajashekhar:
I am not apprehensive about the profession, I am merely |
pointing out an irony.
I do agree with you fully that the library is a living organism as |
Ranganathan points out. I would also point out that librarianship |
requires a graduate degree with a Masters or PhD from an |
accredited university and that the degree can be transfered to |
many fields. If this does not place it in a professional column, |
I am not sure what would satisfy the professiologists and would |
have to admit I am not concerned with what they call us as long |
as we know what we are and how to do our job on a multitude |
of levels in almost all disciplines.
I think on some level where a nurse must know everything |
about nursing and a lawyer everything about their area |
of law, their profession is based upon cubby holing their tasks. |
That this is what they do and this is what they do only. |
They are experts in their chosen filed.
"What do you do?" "I am an engineer studying chemistry". |
"Oh, so you are a chemical engineer?"
In the case of a librarian, they may not be a chemical |
engineer, but should be able to find the information |
an engineer, lawyer, nurse, needs even if they |
had not studied the field. Librarians are all over the |
place on any given day and can not be easily cubby |
holed into knowing only one area alone. This may throw |
some people into not knowing what a librarian does |
because they are not easily cubby holed. Even |
if one is an art librarian, and a professor is an expert |
on Modernism, the art librarian must know how to |
find proper information on all areas of art. Our profession is to |
utilize and assess information beyond a patron's niche.
In the end, the format and delivery may change, but the |
necessity to organize and retrieve proper information remains |
the staple of librarianship. So I am optimistic of the future.
This is an interesting conversation.
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