Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a librarian can go next

4 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a librarian already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

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.

Also known as library assistant, library technical assistant, literature researcher, catalogue librarian, special collections librarian, thesaurus manager, library network coordinator, library associate, library supervisor, electronic resources librarian, music librarian, school librarian.

Professionals 54 skills on file 4 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: library assistant, 69%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
library assistant 69% covered library manager 66% covered archivist 39% covered information manager 39% covered librarian You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from librarian, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a librarian already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A librarian needs 15 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • evaluate information services using metrics information skills
  • negotiate library contracts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • analyse library users' queries information skills
  • buy new library items communication, collaboration and creativity
  • classify library materials information skills
  • provide library information assisting and caring
  • arrange interlibrary loans management skills
  • develop solutions to information issues communication, collaboration and creativity
  • information governance compliance social sciences, journalism and information
  • manage digital libraries working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a librarian does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Librarian is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a librarian’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.