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 -
organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audio-visually and digitally recorded material;
selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audio-visually and digitally recorded material;
organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material;
managing library borrowing and inter-library loan facilities and information networks;
retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems;
conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users` needs;
devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information;
preparing scholarly papers and reports;
performing manual, on-line and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in
accessing library materials.