Small task for Librarians

In principle I agree with St Clair. Librarians do have an image problem and that may be related to the fact that we don't have a very informative job title. My title is 'Information Librarian'. I think it is OK - certainly better than 'Reference Librarian'. I decided to look at some alternative terms and came across this fascinating page in the Websters On-line dictionary but none of the synonyms were any use. Information needs to stay in the title but perhaps the librarian could be replaced with something else - expert, manager, facilitator, broker - nothing seems quite right. I came across an article by Gillian Davis on this subject and she suggested Information Specialist and Information Architect. I like Information Specialist. But, unfortunately, changing our titles would probably be a fairly pointless exercise - we have always been called librarians (since 1781 anyway (Parker, 2009)) and that is what people will continue to call us no matter what our name badges may say. I can imagine meeting someone - "What do you do?" "I'm an Information Specialist" "Where do you work?" "At the library" "Oh, so you're a librarian".