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.
Skill level: Highly skilledCheck your Wage
- Salary range for the majority of workers in Librarians and related information professionals - from $2,989 to $11,326 per month - 2026.
- A Librarians and related information professionals typically earns between $2,989 and $7,606 gross per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between $3,520 and $9,230 per month for a working week of 40 hours.
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Tasks and duties
- Organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material
- Managing library borrowing and interlibrary 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, online and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials
