Classification note
- Published code: 2622
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 2 Professionals
- Sub Major Group: 26 Legal, Social and Cultural Professionals
- Minor Group: 262 Librarians, Archivists and Curators
- Unit Group: 2622 Librarians and Related Information Professionals
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- No primary TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
Definition
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.
Tasks include
Tasks include - (a) organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (b) selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (c) organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material; (d) managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks; (e) retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems; (f) conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users’ needs; (g) devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information; (h) preparing scholarly papers and reports; (i) performing manual, on-line and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bibliographer - Cataloguer - Librarian
ISCO-88 correspondence
- 2432