Comment

Abstract

WHEN YOU meet people for the first time and they ask what you do, do you ever hesitate about telling them you're a librarian? Do you ever qualify your self‐description with some such phrase as ‘can't you tell by looking at me?’ or ‘I don't just stamp books you know’? Do you sometimes feel diffident about describing your work? I do. The reason I react in this way is that I know people outside our information world think they know very well what we do, but in fact have very little idea. We seem to have a very strong popular image which it is difficult if not impossible to shake off.

Citation

Chapman, L., Reid, D., Griffin, B., Bibble, Q., Barnett, G. and Ashworth, W. (1980), "Comment", New Library World, Vol. 81 No. 8, pp. 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb038497