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Librarianship is a noble profession. lotus5673@yahoo.co.in 1816gbgv --- On Mon, 1/2/10, Library Society of the World <groups-noreply@linkedin.com> wrote: From: Library Society of the World <groups-noreply@linkedin.com> 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 LinkedIn Groups Group: Library Society of the World Subject: New comment (13) on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a full fledged profession? 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. Posted by Lloyd Wedes Go to complete discussion » Don't want to get notifications about this discussion? Unsubscribe here » LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. ©2010, LinkedIn Corporation.

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Librarianship as a profession

Dear Prof.Lloyd Wedes,




The first thing.........there was no such word as Professiology some time
ago. Second.........professiologists consist of sociologists, Social Scientists, economists,scientists,philosophers.....others and ofcourse librarians
as well. Accept Sociologists and few other social scientists......
.other scholars seldom get to study professions.........but they
engage mainly to study their own occupation and profession....
...as real stake holders. Librarians do double up as professiologists...
....and thier impressions on this topic and thier research findings ....
..are antogonistic. They dont tally. When librarians lecture in thier
associations......they fully endorse their occupation as a profession..
.....but in practice........and at personal/professional level..
....they endorse that theirs is not yet a full fledged profession.



There are few librarians who happen to be sociologists as
well. They are the real insiders....who can try to come closer to reality.........based on research. Fortunately or unfortunately......the scholars and Social scienitsts......
who represent society and people at large are sociologists.
........ and no others have neither interest not concern for such subjects.



I still remember my invited lecture at Hyderabad....
...on the topic of "Librarianship as profession". I was
literally stopped at every senetence by the socalled senior
LIS professionals. They contented that this topic is to be
addressed by some old retired librarians........presidents
of LIbrary associans........not a librarian who is junior.
My only fault was that........I was objective and was
basing my lecture.......on the resutls of studies......both by
librarians and sociologists...........



I can very well understand your feelings and apprehensions....
....I am not attesting the credentials of the methodologies
of professiologies.........but the fact is that they are studies
available. We are changing.........we are emerging.......
we are in right track...........we will ba a fullfledged profession.....
...sooner but not later. That is indeed a coveted title for us.....
..that brings us the much desired status......recoginition ...
... and indispensibility.



Shall we resolve to look at the researches done in this regard.........



best wishes



RajLibrarian

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