Information Services Manager
OFO Code: 262202
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 262202
- Occupation
- Information Services Manager
- 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: Knowledge Management Officer, Biodiversity Information Management Specialist, Information System Consultant, Records Manager, Knowledge Manager, Freedom of Information Officer, Catalogue Administrator, Information Management Specialist, Records Administrator
- 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
2. Demand status
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
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