Sounds like librarianship

EarlyWord has an entry that discusses and links to reviews of the book THE IMPERFECTIONISTS. They have this paragraph in the piece that made me think of librarianship:

The story is told through the eyes of various members of the staff of a struggling newspaper. Louis Bayard, in the The Washington Post, says it ”…is about what happens when professionals realize that their craft no longer has meaning in the world’s eyes…and that the only people who really understand them are on the same foundering ship, and that, come to think of it, they really loved that damn ship for all it made their lives hell.”

Full piece here.