Documentalist

Librarians and related information professionals collect, select, arrange, organise and maintain collections in libraries and other information repositories, organise and control library services and provide information to users.

• arranging, organising and maintaining systematic collections of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisual and digitally recorded materials;
• selecting and recommending books and other printed, audiovisual or digitally recorded materials;
• organising, classifying and cataloguing library materials;
• directing book lending, and managing library technology, equipment and information networks;
• processing materials and providing information to business and other users from a collection or from library and information network systems;
• conducting research and analysing changes in library and information services in line with user needs;
• developing and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organisation, classification and retrieval of information;
• preparing scientific papers and reports;
• preparing guides and online and interactive search tools that facilitate book lending and user access to library materials.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Bibliographer
• Documentalist
• Librarian