Zhu Yongying,Liu Jingyu,Wang Hui
图书与情报. 2013, 33(02): 44-52.
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How to enter LIS major, attitudes towards LIS major, confidence towards LIS profession's future, willingness to switch their major, and willingness to be a librarian, which are 5 dimensions to measure future-professionals' professional cognition, have showed significant impact on their stereotype of librarians. Future-professionals, who have more positive professional cognition, are more willingly to contact with librarians, consider librarians' job more complex and less comfortable. The impacts are especially significant on future -professional's attitude towards profession's complexity and willingness to contact with librarians. Different dimensions of professional cognition show differentiated impacts on stereotype of librarians. For future -professionals, lack of profession's complexity is the main reason for their attitudes towards the major-"like but don't choose the major". Our research indicates that complexity of the profession is the core criterion for future-professionals to evaluate their profession.