Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a library assistant can go next

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

Library assistants assist the librarian in the day-to-day activities of the library. They help clients find the materials they need, check out library materials and restock the shelves.

Also known as library services assistant, library clerk, assistant librarian, library technician, senior library assistant.

Clerical support workers 32 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: librarian, 50%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
librarian 50% covered library manager 42% covered information manager 27% covered archivist 25% covered library assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from library assistant, 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 library assistant already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. 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 · What the job itself asks for

A library assistant needs 13 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
  • display library material communication, collaboration and creativity
  • instruct library users in digital literacy communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain library inventory information skills
  • manage library users queries information skills
  • organise library material information skills
  • maintain library equipment handling and moving
  • analyse library users' queries information skills
  • classify library materials information skills
  • provide library information assisting and caring
  • arrange interlibrary loans management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Library assistant is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. 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 library assistant’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.