[Feedback]

摘要

No qualifications, no title I'm writing in response to Sylvia Spiva's "Call me 'librarian' " (Feedback, LJ 5/15/14, p. 9). Why do people think it is acceptable to appropriate the title "librarian"? The profession suffers enough with defining itself; we don't need to denigrate ourselves further by allowing everyone to call themselves "librarian." Why can't we be proud of our professional qualifications and the title that goes with that? I'm fed up with people who seem to think that not only can they take on the title, but that in so doing they are somehow perfectly qualified for the job. I know first aid, but I don't call myself a paramedic. I don't understand why people think if they interact with a bit of information, it makes them librarians.