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Librarians
Librarians develop, organise and manage library services such as collections of information, recreational resources and reader information services.
Fun facts
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Moderate Future Growth
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1654 Weekly Pay Before Tax
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61% full-time Full-Time Share
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84% female Gender Share
Tasks
There are many tasks done by librarians. A few are listed below:
- developing and implementing library and information policies and services
- examining publications and materials, interviewing publishers' representatives, and consulting with others to select library materials
- reviewing, evaluating and modifying services in response to user needs
- providing assistance to clients in accessing library resources
- managing library systems for recording and organising library holdings, acquisitions and purchases, reader registrations and loan transactions, and supervising indexing, filing and retrieval activities
- managing inter-library loan systems and information networks
- undertaking information research activities on behalf of clients
- selecting, ordering, classifying and cataloguing library and information resources
- monitoring collection development and culling programs
- supervising and training other library staff
- may plan and direct library promotion and outreach activities
Specific occupations
- Librarian
- Acquisitions Librarian
- Audiovisual Librarian
- Bibliographer
- Cataloguer
- Children's Librarian
- Corporate Librarian
- Legal Librarian
- Multicultural Services Librarian
- Parliamentary Librarian
- Reference Librarian
- Special Librarian
- Special Needs Librarian