ISCO unit group

Librarians and related information professionals

Librarians and related information professionals collect, select, develop, organize and maintain library collections and other information repositories; organize and control other library services and provide information for users. Tasks include - (a) organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (b) selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (c) organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material; (d) managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks; (e) retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems; (f) conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users’ needs; (g) devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information; (h) preparing scholarly papers and reports; (i) performing manual, online and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bibliographer - Cataloguer - Librarian

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