Dear Mr.Anand, Your views on LiS Profession are indeed appreciable. Just like other professionals like nurses, teachers or accountants librarians do have lot of apprehensions about status and images of the profession. It is very simple.... as librarians we always think of what the profession has done for us ... and we rarely think about what we have done for the profession and how we are responsible for its status and image. There are some studies / research by librarians themselves and Sociologists of Professions. It is time all of us be little aware of such studies instead of blind groping and making loose comments. I have summed up some such thoughts in couple of my papers. I have placed here link of one of my papers which would be useful to all who .... who wonder on our image and status in society. It may also be useful to all those who have started a very humiliating series of opinions on 'how librarianship is a dyeing profession' ... at American Library Associations Sub Group ... ' Lis career' on LinkedIn social Network... Here is my link to my paper titled .... Librarianship and the professional model ... a sociological critique ... http://eprints.rclis.org/5826/Best wishesRajashekhar Devarailotus5673@yahoo.co.in Sent from Yahoo! Mail for Windows 8 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.