Is librarianship a profession?



Which is just about all I’m inclined to say about that.

Oh, except for one correction clarification note: Dorothea sez:








3 Responses to “Is librarianship a profession?”

  1. Bleh, my bad, sorry. Will add a link and a mea culpa.

  2. walt says:

    As noted in email: No mea culpa needed. I have not made a big deal out of being self-trained as a library systems analyst (of course, in 1968, I’m not sure where you’d go to get that training…), and that’s certainly where I’ve made my living.

  3. PaulW says:

    Librarianship is a profession.
    Speaking as a reference librarian, the job requires the skills of research, of interpreting information well enough to know where to store it and how to make it accessible to others. It involves a lot of knowledge covering a lot of topics, almost a Jack-of-all-trades to where you know just enough about everything from computers to cars to art to literature to history to people to, well, the universe.

    I kinda like the title of Bibliographic Researching Expert.