Reflexiones sobre el prestigio y la dignidad profesional del bibliotecólogo en el estado de Nuevo León, México

This paper analyses some reflections about the professional prestige and dignity of librarianship in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It analyses and criticises: a) the lack of professional categories for librarians with B.A.s or Masters degrees in Nuevo Leon, in contrast, for example with Mexico City's UNAM; it also assesses how several B.A. librarians from the Mexican National Institute of Social Security (the national health service system) in the Nuevo Leon state-wide fought to obtain a Professional B.A. Librarian status signed in the labour contract and eventually they won; b) it criticises the repressive and dictatorial attitudes on the side of the top managerial and academic mafias from the major Nuevo Leon universities who do not allow free and equal academic and professional development opportunities of the vast majorities of librarians with or without B.A. degrees and who also censor their freedom of expression and thought in Nuevo Leon librarianship; c) it advocates for librarians to have an honest service mystique as if they were doing a sort of "apostleship" against the common practice of Nuevo Leon librarians who have a practice without ethics and in favour of "monetarist" and "mercenarist" attitudes. As for the guild activities, it criticises the demogogical opportunism and charlatanism of the Nuevo Leon librarianship guilds such as AMBAC (standing from the Mexico's Mexican Library Association, Nuevo Leon chapter), they only take advantage of the ineptitudes of the three levels of the Mexican governments on library matters and they use dishonestly natural disasters and casualties against libraries or librarians and falsely appeal to sentimentalisms simply to move people's emotions and appear in press picture, but without honestly analysing, criticising and denouncing the deep structural faults underneath the Mexican State and all the three levels of governments: federal, state and municipal.