diff --git a/dl.go b/dl.go
index 807981f..9cc4f90 100644
--- a/dl.go
+++ b/dl.go
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ func cast(sym unsafe.Pointer, v interface{}) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// loadsym wraps loading symbol name from the handle, decoding the value to v.
-func loadsym(h unsafe.Pointer, name string, v interface{}) error {
+// Sym wraps loading symbol name from handle h, decoding the value to v.
+func Sym(h unsafe.Pointer, name string, v interface{}) error {
 	n := C.CString(name)
 	defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(n))
 
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ func loadsym(h unsafe.Pointer, name string, v interface{}) error {
 
 // SymDefault loads symbol name into v from the RTLD_DEFAULT handle.
 func SymDefault(name string, v interface{}) error {
-	return loadsym(C.RTLD_DEFAULT, name, v)
+	return Sym(C.RTLD_DEFAULT, name, v)
 }
 
 // SymNext loads symbol name into v from the RTLD_NEXT handle.
 func SymNext(name string, v interface{}) error {
-	return loadsym(C.RTLD_NEXT, name, v)
+	return Sym(C.RTLD_NEXT, name, v)
 }
diff --git a/lib.go b/lib.go
index ba68a02..7bc8518 100644
--- a/lib.go
+++ b/lib.go
@@ -67,5 +67,5 @@ func (l *Lib) Close() error {
 
 // Sym loads symbol name from the loaded library into v.
 func (l *Lib) Sym(name string, v interface{}) error {
-	return loadsym(l.h, name, v)
+	return Sym(l.h, name, v)
 }