Abstract: This paper investigates the occupational status of university librarians to understand the attitude of the front-line librarians for their own occupation cognitive. The librarian occupation recognition degree is not high, career faith is not firm, negative and pessimistic for their occupation prospect, and have less chance to vocational edu- cation, but they have a strong desire to be educated, strengthen professional ethics education can alleviate these phenomena.

Key words: occupation recognition; career faith; occupation prospect; vocational education; hbrarian