To a great extent, the prosperity and development of the librarianship in nowadays is promoted by the government's policy and financial support. Therefore, the impression and view of the authorities directly influence the future development direction and motivation of librarianship. Thus, an empirical study was conducted to describe the stereotype to the librarian of leaders of the departments in charge of librarians from three dimensions: the impression of librarians, the impression of the library work, and the willingness of communication. The study found that: First, the leader of the related authorities was close to the librarian, but did not have a word for library work. Second, librarian impression and the complexity of library work are the effective variables to predict each other. Third, leaders of the related authorities did not treat librarians and their work with contempt, so the "self-preference and work complaint" was merely the "self-marginalization" behavior of librarians. All these problems point to the lack of professional confidence in the profession and the absence of profession discourse. The research suggests that librarians should be on guard of the lack of professional confidence while enjoying the prosperity situation.
Xu Jianhua Yang Jixia Lu Jinyi
. How Related Authorities Think about Us: An Empirical Study on Librarian Stereotype of Related Authorities[J]. Library & Information, 2019
, 39(04)
: 92
-100
.
DOI: 10.11968/tsyqb.1003-6938.2019064