What are the requirements for working in a library?

A student with a bachelor's degree in library science and a master's degree in information science. He has interned in the library and experienced rotations in various departments such as the circulation department, reference department, and cataloging department. Be familiar with library work. So answer the question: What are the requirements for working in a library?

Many people think that "librarians" are "librarians" who manage books and are just idlers. In fact, library staff are collectively referred to as "librarians" in the industry. They are professional and technical personnel. According to their professional titles, they include assistant librarians (junior professional titles), librarians (intermediate professional titles), and associate research librarians (deputy research librarians). Senior professional title), research librarian (senior professional title). Staff who first join the library are evaluated based on their academic qualifications or seniority. After working, their professional titles are evaluated based on specific working years and scientific research achievements.

Anyone who wants to be a librarian in a public library (with a professional establishment) must pass the unified examination and interview. The preliminary examination is a subject of the public institution examination, professional ability test and comprehensive application , will not test library-related professional knowledge. The re-examination is usually a structured interview. Large public libraries generally require a bachelor's degree or above, some positions require a master's degree or above, some special positions require a doctorate, and some small libraries are recruiting for junior college degrees. ?Generally speaking, district and county-level libraries and municipal-level libraries recruit relatively more positions with undergraduate degrees. Provincial or national libraries generally require a master's degree.

Those who want to be university librarians (with establishments) generally have their own exams and interviews organized by the university. Good university libraries, especially those at key universities, generally require applicants to have a master's degree or above, and some require a doctoral degree. There are ordinary undergraduate universities and colleges and universities with junior colleges, some of which only recruit undergraduates. The content of the exam may be similar to the unified recruitment exam for public institutions, and may also include library-related professional knowledge. The recruitment of librarians in provincial vocational colleges is generally the same as that of public libraries, and they are recruited through the unified examination of the provincial public institutions. However, in current university recruitment, there are not many establishments. Only those with doctorate degrees are provided with establishments, but not even those with master's degrees.

In general, whether it is a public library or a university library, as a large public institution, different positions have different professional and academic requirements. The System Department recruits mostly computer science and technology majors, while the Acquisition and Cataloging Department generally recruits undergraduates or masters in library science, information science, and archival science, as well as those majoring in library and information majors.

In addition to staffed librarians, there are also non-staffed librarians, staff who are outsourced or staffed by personnel agencies or dispatched. As you know, many universities will arrange for "family members" to join the staff. In addition to unified recruitment for public institutions, public offices and bureaus also have no establishment for ordinary recruitment. Therefore, when applying for a job, you should check clearly whether there is a staff establishment, and confirm with HR whether there is a staff establishment. Establishment is the prerequisite for promotion and professional title evaluation. Without establishment, the opportunities for promotion and professional title evaluation are limited.

If you want to be a middle school librarian, the academic requirements are relatively not very high. A junior college or bachelor's degree is sufficient. Some primary and secondary school libraries are established by schools, and some are not. Primary and secondary libraries are recruiting more library science majors. The current scale of development is very small. There may be only 1-2 people in a library, and the work content is complicated and trivial. Because there are many chores, it is difficult to carry out professional reading promotion and reading club work. Regardless of whether there is a establishment, the level of attention is average, because the core work of middle schools is teaching.

Why do library jobs require these conditions? What does the library do? Why not just sort out the books?

Large libraries, such as public libraries at the municipal level and above, and university libraries are generally relatively large in scale and have a clear division of labor. The specific division of labor may vary from library to library, but it is roughly the same. Generally includes the interview department, cataloging department, circulation department, reading promotion department, system department, reference department, etc.

Acquisition Department

The work content of the interview department is book interviewing, which is the collection of books. Procurement and access, including book subscription, acceptance and processing of various forms, are the necessary means and ways for a library to obtain the necessary material basis for its own survival and development. All books in the library are obtained through book interviews.

Cataloging Department

Everyone knows that the library is the place where books are collected. Every year the library purchases tens of thousands of new books. To put it simply, the library buys books from booksellers, and then labels the books with its own unique label (just like an ID card), which is a barcode.

Then prepare a call number (classification number + author number) for each book, and register the identity information and other information of each book in the library system. Then print and affix book labels. Then put the books on the bookshelf (there are certain orders and rules for where to put them on the bookshelf) so that they can be borrowed by readers in the future.

Circulation Department

The work of the Circulation Department includes front desk reader services, library borrowing and returning book registration, sorting and shelving of books, and maintaining order in the reading room. The work of circulation is relatively simple and not very professional and technical.

Reading Promotion Department

The responsibilities of reading promotion positions in libraries generally include the cultural construction of the library, the construction of reading promotion activities in the library, and the construction of new media in the library. For example, reading activity construction, library promotion, library book recommendation and other activities.

Reading promotion activities generally include the following aspects:

Lecture activities: academic forums, celebrity forums, hot topic forums

Competition activities: speech contests, search Competitions, knowledge contests, essay contests, video activities

Exhibition activities: art exhibitions, book exhibitions, film exhibitions, photography exhibitions

Entertainment activities: book copying activities, book organizing activities

Organizational associations: reading clubs, readers' associations, library associations

System Department

The work of the system department is generally responsible for the construction of the library's software, hardware and network equipment. and maintenance, technical support for digital libraries (library home page, database resource management), purchase, introduction, installation and maintenance of electronic information resources and electronic equipment, etc. In short, the systems department is basically responsible for library and information technology-related work.

Reference Consultation Department

The reference consultation department is responsible for answering questions encountered by users in the process of querying and utilizing scientific and technological literature, including library collections, services, rules, literature retrieval and utilization, etc. . Consultants are not responsible for providing specific answers to various questions beyond the scope of consultation, but will try their best to make suggestions for users' reference. Reference consultation service forms include: online consultation and on-site reference consultation. Online consultation generally includes: online real-time consultation, delayed consultation services, expert counterpart consultation, email consultation, self-service consultation (FAQ, online training manuals, online classrooms, etc.).

I only listed libraries above The specific division of labor among different library departments is definitely diverse. For example, some libraries have set up a subject service department, a document information resource construction department, etc.