I definitely agree with you though – we do need to get a better grasp on what it is we exactly do so we can explain it when asked…but perhaps this is a more difficult problem, because there are so many different types that we’re hard-pressed to lump everything that each of us does under the heading “librarian” – catalogers, reference librarians, youth librarians, readers advisers, technology librarians, information literacy librarians, academic librarians in a specialized field, medical librarians, legal librarians …and on and on. Can we come up with a single list that says “this is what constitutes Librarian?”