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Librarian

OFO Code: 262201

Last checked 3 October 2026

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1. Occupation identity

OFO code
262201
Occupation
Librarian
Classification
OFO 2021
Major group
PROFESSIONALS
Unit group
2622 · Librarians and Related Information Professionals

Official description
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.

More official OFO detail

Specialisations: Special Needs Librarian, Parliamentary Librarian, Coordinator Heritage General Collections Management, Legal Librarian, Bibliographer, Information Scientist / Officer, Collection Development Manager, Children's Librarian, Library Manager / Advisor, Audio-visual Librarian, Acquisitions Librarian / Advisor, Cataloguer, Reference Librarian / Advisor, Bibliographic Services Manager, Oral History Manager, Special Librarian, Multicultural Services Librarian, Corporate Librarian

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

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