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.
Skill level:
Highly skilled
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- A Document Services Specialist in Ontario in professional, scientific and technical activities with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $33.50 and maximum $42.50 per hour in 2020.
- A Document Services Specialist in Ontario in professional, scientific and technical activities with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $33.50 and maximum $42.50 per hour in 2020.
- A Document Services Specialist in Ontario in professional, scientific and technical activities with 4 years or less experience earned minimum $38.30 and maximum $51.00 per hour in 2020.
Job Responsibilities
- Organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material
- Managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks
- Retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems
- Conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users' needs
- Devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information
- Preparing scholarly papers and reports
- Performing manual, online and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials
