Profession library assistant

Library technicians prepare artworks, specimens and artefacts for collections, arrange and construct gallery exhibits, and assist librarians in organising and operate systems for handling recorded material and files.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Social

Related professions library

• Archivist
• Documentalist
• Librarian
• Library clerk
• Library manager

Knowledge

• Copyright legislation

  Legislation describing the protection of the rights of original authors over their work, and how others can use it.

Skills

• Manage library users queries

  Search library databases and standard reference materials, including online sources, to help users should they have questions.

• Assess informational needs

  Communicate with clients or users in order to identify which information they require and the methods with which they can access it.

• Instruct library users

  Teach library visitors basic computer skills, such as searching digital databases.

• Maintain library inventory

  Keep accurate records of circulation of materials, maintain an up-to-date inventory, and correct possible cataloguing errors.

• Organise library material

  Organise collections of books, publications, documents, audio-visual material and other reference materials for convenient access.

• Provide library information

  Explain the use of library services, resources and equipment; provide information about library customs.

• Display library material

  Assemble, sort and arrange library materials for display.

• Organise information

  Arrange information according to a specified set of rules. Catalogue and classify information based on the characteristics of that information.

• Maintain library equipment

  Maintain, clean and repair library resources, equipment and facilities, such as dusting or fixing printer paper jams.

• Classify library materials

  Classify, code and catalogue books, publications, audio-visual documents and other library materials based on subject matter or library classification standards.

• Analyse library users' queries

  Analyse library users' requests to determine extra information; assist in furnishing and locating that information.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB