This term paper focuses on the position of Library Assistant and similar jobs within a library. It goes on to explain the job description, the skills necessary to be a library assistant, the training of the position (with other qualifications and opportunities for advancement) and the salary of the position. The paper continues with how teens or young adults can get experience working in library through high school library clubs, college work study jobs in their college libraries or internships. The paper continues with what the libraries would be like in the future, with computers and the Internet making print material being used by patrons more and more as time goes by. It explains the duties of frontline staff and concludes with advice on how to apply for a library job.
If you're a person who loves to read and look through books (or other reading material) in a relatively quiet setting, then working in a library might be just the kind of work for you. Some of the positions that generally exist within libraries are library assistants (or clerks/pages), library technicians, acquisition assistants and librarians.
[...] Another source is the major trade publications, such as Library Journal and American Libraries. There's also related publications, such as The Cronical of Higher Education for academic library postings or Aviso for archivist jobs. If you're looking for a specific location, take a look at individual sites. Libweb can help you locate library homepages. (“HOWTO:Apply for a library LISWiki April 2010, MediaWiki, http://www.tk421.net/essays/howto.html ) XI. Bibliography Balink, Meagon. “Library: jobs, databases hurt.” Colorado Daily June 2003, Visited on May Black, William K. [...]
[...] Great changes have occurred from print to electronic formats, involvement of non-professionals (such as library assistants) in higher levels of cataloging, a trend towards outsourcing and more cataloging of specialized materials, audio-visual materials and digital documents by professional libraries. Library administrators and catalogers from library and information science colleges and universities are recruiting and training students as catalogers who are interested in library cataloging as a career. (Khurshid, Zahiruddin, The impact of information technology on job requirements and qualifications for cataloger, Information Technology and Libraries, March 2003.) II. [...]
[...] Annotative Bibliography Meagon Balink's newspaper article, “Library Jobs, databases shows the trends in libraries on increasing technology and what I might have to face soon as a library assistant. William Black Journal, “(Student Library Assistants) (Student Assistants: Critical shows that experience working in school libraries helps students get jobs in public libraries later on. I hope to do that before getting a public library job. For the Occupational Outlook Handbooks, I picked both sources to have a general background on the library assistant jobs, which I plan to look for. [...]
[...] Serving as a support staff worker, whether it be clerk, technician or assistant, may lead either worker to seek and earn a Master of Library Science degree. (Patterson, Linda, Face of the Library: Frontline Staff are Crucial to Service, Taking these experts seriously is vital to the ‘library of the future' Library Journal, Central Library, Multnomah County, Portland, OR. 2004.) IX. Job Outlook According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor and its book The Occupational Outlook Handbook, opportunities for people interested in being library assistants should be good through the year 2012. [...]
[...] According to the book Best Jobs Without a four-year Degree, by Michael Farr, La Verne Ludden and Lorriane Shatking, Library Assistants are in the following categories: Interest area Education and social science. Work group Educational services. Personality type Conventional. Conventional Occupations involve following set procedures and routine, working with data and details more than with ideas. There is usually a clear line of authority to follow. Education and Training Curriculum and Instructional Educational / Instructional Media Design. Related Knowledge / courses Clerical Studies. [...]
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