Occupation Atlaslibrarian
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/60f7eb23-a7ea-4cbe-98a5-1248291f62d5
librarian
Librarians manage libraries and perform related library services. They manage, collect and develop information resources. They make information available, accessible and discoverable to any kind of user.
Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CSIConventional · Social · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.83
- S Social4.04
- I Investigative3.63
- E Enterprising2.75
- A Artistic2.65
- R Realistic2.32
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Librarians and Media Collections Specialists (25-4022.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse library users' queries
- arrange interlibrary loans
- assess informational needs
- buy new library items
- classify library materials
- collection management
- conduct scholarly research
- develop solutions to information issues
- evaluate information services using metrics
- information governance compliance
- manage digital libraries
- negotiate library contracts
- perform customer management
- provide library information
- scientific research methodology
Optional (39)
- apply for library funding
- apply social media marketing
- assist in library facility planning
- assist in the organisation of school events
- assist students with library operations
- compile library lists
- confer with library colleagues
- coordinate educational programmes
- copyright legislation
- create semantic trees
- develop artistic educational activities
- develop classification systems
- digital curation
- digitise documents
- digitization
- draw up professional texts
- escort students on a field trip
- guarantee students' safety
- kindergarten school procedures
- literature
- maintain library equipment
- manage digital archives
- manage fundraising activities
- manage human resources
- manage information access aids
- music and video industry
- musical genres
- organise information
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- perform playground surveillance
- post-secondary school procedures
- primary school procedures
- recruit employees
- secondary school procedures
- select new library items to acquire
- supervise daily library operations
- types of literature genres
- use databases
- use software for data preservation
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 15 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
library manager
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ICT research manager
2 shared · 16 more of its ownconduct scholarly research, scientific research methodology
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