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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Administer libraries and perform related library services. Work in a variety of settings, including public libraries, educational institutions, museums, corporations, government agencies, law firms, non-profit organizations, and healthcare providers. Tasks may include selecting, acquiring, cataloguing, classifying, circulating, and maintaining library materials; and furnishing reference, bibliographical, and readers' advisory services. May perform in-depth, strategic research, and synthesize, analyze, edi t, and filter information. May set up or work with databases and information systems to catalogue and access information. | Search standard reference materials, including online sources and the Internet, to answer patrons' reference questions. | |||
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Analyze patrons' requests to determine needed information, and assist in furnishing or locating that information. | ||||
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Check books in and out of the library. | ||||
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Explain use of library facilities, resources, equipment, and services, and provide information about library policies. | ||||
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Code, classify, and catalog books, publications, films, audiovisual aids, and other library materials based on subject matter or standard library classification systems. | ||||
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Locate unusual or unique information in response to specific requests. | ||||
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Direct and train library staff in duties such as receiving, shelving, researching, cataloging, and equipment use. | ||||
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Respond to customer complaints, taking action as necessary. | ||||
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Organize collections of books, publications, documents, audiovisual aids, and other reference materials for convenient access. | ||||
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Develop library policies and procedures. | ||||
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Evaluate materials to determine outdated or unused items to be discarded. | ||||
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Plan and deliver client-centered programs and services such as special services for corporate clients, storytelling for children, newsletters, or programs for special groups. | ||||
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Compile lists of books, periodicals, articles, and audiovisual materials on particular subjects. | ||||
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Arrange for interlibrary loans of materials not available in a particular library. | ||||
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Assemble and arrange display materials. | ||||
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Compile lists of overdue materials, and notify borrowers that their materials are overdue. | ||||
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Design information storage and retrieval systems, and develop procedures for collecting, organizing, interpreting, and classifying information. | ||||
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Negotiate contracts for library services, materials, and equipment. | ||||
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Provide input into the architectural planning of library facilities. | ||||
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Collect and organize books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and other materials in specific fields, such as rare books, genealogy, or music. | ||||
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Plan and participate in fundraising drives. | ||||
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Perform public relations work for the library, such as giving televised book reviews and community talks. | ||||
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Write proposals for research or project grants. | ||||
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Teach library patrons basic computer skills, such as searching computerized databases. | ||||
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Plan and teach classes on topics such as information literacy, library instruction, and technology use. | ||||
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Review and evaluate materials, using book reviews, catalogs, faculty recommendations, and current holdings, to select and order print, audiovisual, and electronic resources. | ||||
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Confer with colleagues, faculty, and community members and organizations to conduct informational programs, make collection decisions, and determine library services to offer. | ||||
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Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot information access aids, such as databases, annotated bibliographies, web pages, electronic pathfinders, software programs, and online tutorials. | ||||
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Evaluate vendor products and performance, negotiate contracts, and place orders. | ||||
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Engage in professional development activities, such as taking continuing education classes and attending or participating in conferences, workshops, professional meetings, and associations. | ||||
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Represent library or institution on internal and external committees. | ||||
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Develop and maintain databases that provide information for library users. | ||||
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Keep up to date records of circulation and materials, maintain inventory, and correct cataloging errors. | ||||
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Supervise daily library operations, budgeting, planning, and personnel activities, such as hiring, training, scheduling, and performance evaluations. | ||||
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Author or publish professional articles, internal documents, and instructional materials. | ||||
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Complete minor repairs and cleaning of library resources, equipment, and facilities, such as dusting and fixing printer paper jams. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Librarians, Professional
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Clerical | Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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History and Archeology | Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat software | Document management software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Flash Player | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software | Graphics or photo imaging software | |||
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Apple iMovie | Video creation and editing software | |||
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Blogging software | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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CATNYP | Library software | |||
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Cascading Style Sheets CSS | Web platform development software | |||
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CatchTheWeb | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Classification Web | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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Database software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Desktop publishing software | Desktop publishing software | |||
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Dynix Digital Library | Library software | |||
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Electronic Online Systems International EOS.Web | Library software | |||
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Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Ex Libris Group Aleph | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Ex Libris Group Voyager | Library software | |||
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Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML | Web platform development software | |||
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Extensible markup language XML | Enterprise application integration software | |||
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FileMaker Pro software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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HTTrack | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Hypertext markup language HTML | Web platform development software | |||
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Infovision Amlib | Library software | |||
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Inmagic Genie | Library software | |||
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Inmagic TextWorks | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Innovative Interfaces Millennium | Library software | |||
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Kelowna Software L4U | Library software | |||
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LexisNexis software | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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MC2 Systems Auto Librarian | Library software | |||
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Macropool Web Research | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft Access | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Onfolio | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Microsoft PowerPoint | Presentation software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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National Library of Medicine DOCLINE | Library software | |||
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National Library of Medicine Medline | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Online Computer Library Center OCLC | Library software | |||
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor | Web platform development software | |||
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PrimaSoft PC Small Library Organizer Pro | Library software | |||
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RCL Software Media Library Manager | Library software | |||
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Really Simple Syndication RSS | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Saora Keepoint | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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SirsiDynix Symphony | Library software | |||
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Social networking software | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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Sun Microsystems Java | Object or component oriented development software | |||
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Surpass software | Library software | |||
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Thomson Scientific Dialog | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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WebClarity Software BookWhere | Library software | |||
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Westlaw | Information retrieval or search software | |||
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Wiki software | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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WorldCat | Library software | |||
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Yahoo Flickr | Web page creation and editing software | |||
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askSam Systems SurfSaver | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Barcode scanners | Bar code reader equipment | |||
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Bookmobiles | Cargo trucks | |||
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Cash registers | Cash registers | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Digital video disk DVD players | Digital video disk players or recorders | |||
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Film projectors | Film projectors | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Microfiche readers | Microfiche or microfilm viewers | |||
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Microfilm printers | Microfiche reader printers | |||
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Microfilm readers | Microfiche or microfilm viewers | |||
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Multi-line telephone systems | Special purpose telephones | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Photocopying equipment | Photocopiers | |||
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Public address PA systems | Public address systems | |||
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Scanners | Scanners | |||
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Video cassette recorders VCR | Video cassette players or recorders | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Master's Degree | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Access Services Librarian | |||
Acquisitions Librarian | |||
Administrative Librarian | |||
Adult Reference Librarian | |||
Adult Services Librarian | |||
Archival Collections Librarian | |||
Audio-Visual Librarian | |||
Automation Librarian | |||
Bibliographer | |||
Bookmobile Librarian | |||
Branch or Department Chief Librarian | |||
Business and Economics Librarian | |||
Catalog Librarian | |||
Cataloger | |||
Catalogue Librarian | |||
Cataloguer | |||
Chemical Librarian | |||
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Librarian | |||
Children's Librarian | |||
Circulation Manager | |||
Civil and Environmental Engineering Librarian | |||
Classifier | |||
Co-op Librarian | |||
Collection Development Librarian | |||
Collection Management Librarian | |||
College Librarian | |||
Coordinator of Learning Resources | |||
Coordinator of Library Services | |||
County Law Library Coordinator | |||
Digital Librarian | |||
Director of Visual Education | |||
Document Manager | |||
Document Services Librarian | |||
Electronic Collections Librarian | |||
Electronic Resources Librarian | |||
Elementary Librarian | |||
Elementary Library Media Specialist | |||
Extension Services Librian | |||
Film Librarian | |||
Government Documents Coordinator | |||
Government Documents Librarian | |||
Head of Acquisitions | |||
Head of Circulation | |||
Head of Circulation Department | |||
Head of Government Information Services | |||
Head of Information Services | |||
Head of Outreach and Delivery Services | |||
Head of Print Serials Section | |||
Head of Reference Services | |||
High School Librarian | |||
High School Library Media Specialist | |||
Hospital Librarian | |||
Information Scientist | |||
Information Services Librarian | |||
Institution Librarian | |||
Instruction Librarian | |||
Interlibrary Loan Librarian | |||
Interlibrary Loan Services Librarian | |||
International Broadcast Music Librarian | |||
Law Librarian | |||
Librarian | |||
Librarian/Specialist | |||
Library Circulation Department Chief | |||
Library Director | |||
Library Manager | |||
Library Media Specialist | |||
Library Supervisor | |||
Library Technical Assistant | |||
Library Technician | |||
Media Center Specialist | |||
Media Librarian | |||
Medical Librarian | |||
Medical Library Technician | |||
Medical Record Librarian | |||
Music Librarian | |||
News Librarian | |||
Outreach Librarian | |||
Periodicals Librarian | |||
Prison Librarian | |||
Public Services Librarian | |||
Record Librarian | |||
Reference Bibliographer | |||
Reference Librarian | |||
Research Librarian | |||
School Librarian | |||
School Library Media Specialist | |||
Serials Cataloger Librarian | |||
Serials Librarian | |||
Special Collections Librarian | |||
Special Library Librarian | |||
Systems Librarian | |||
Technical Services Librarian | |||
University Librarian | |||
Visual Education Director | |||
Young Adult Librarian | |||
Youth Services Librarian | |||
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