Librarianship is one of the scientific fields of Social Sciences that has an extensive academic and professional trajectory. There are several study possibilities, including the study of the epistemology of a field, and our focus is the discourses from the scientific articles published in the Revista de Biblioteconomia de Brasília (Journal of Librarianship of Brasília), which had its first issue in 1973. The focus for analysis was of articles published in the decade of 1970, and concentrated on articles that allowed discussion of two categories: library and librarian. The research is considered exploratory of a bibliographic nature, having as a method the content analysis that enabled the operationalization of three phases: pre-analysis; ex...