The librarian is an important position for the functioning of libraries belonging to institutions of higher education. Library personnel is in charge of planning, organizing, management, operation and giving information services in the universities, it is a fundamental part of the teaching/learning process, in grade and postgraduate education, of the knowledge generation activities, and culture
... [Show full abstract] diffusion. The university librarian plays an instrumental part in the university curriculum, and a relevant role in the rhetoric of society of information/society of knowledge, offering from beginners instruction to specialized searches that facilitate the scientific work, technological development and contextualization of these in the academic information universe. Despite of all this and of being in charge of guarding, capitalization and exploitation of important economic investments on the part of the Government of the Republic and the institutions of higher education in Mexico, the librarian is not considered an academician, merely an administrative worker, without the recognition and advantages of the first, and without the betterment possibilities of the second.