Dear All, After working in many organizations i am just thinking what is the job responsibility of a Librarian. Dr. Ranganathan has developed so many fundamental things being a Librarian/Head/Professor which directly and positively influence the profession but what is the job responsibility of modern day's librarians? What are the things they are doing for the profession and developing fundamental things for LIS at-least for their own library? Are they participating in technical/Professional things/process of the the library directly? Are they aware about library routines/technical works etc.? Do you think librarians job is only confined to signing on the bills and other papers which has been done by others? I am not lucky enough so seen very few librarians who is actually directly participating in the library housekeeping operations etc. The position is highly paid and still looking for more pay. I have one year admin work of library at NIT Rourkela and found this is the position which require lot of technical, managerial, admin etc. skills because you have to guide your entire library team and monitor their work with perfections. The entire library services is now based on modern IT based tools and techniques like automation, digitization, electronic resource management, skills and tactics while dealing with publishers/vendors, modern information management and dissemination tools etc. but i hardly found any top management people participate in training programs for developing these skills so how they are handling/guiding/monitoring such things in their library? Kindly take it positive and give your view on paradigm shift in librarians job profile and what is expected in this profession from those top management people? With Regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library (BPCL), NIT Rourkela, Sundergadh-769008, Odisha, India. Mob:91+9439420860 Website: http://mishravk.com/ ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-7874 *"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul" -- Mahatma Gandhi* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.