What are the development paths of librarians?

First of all, let's look at the job content and occupation of librarians.

Librarian's job content: The job content of librarians in different industries and organizations will be different. The work of librarians in the industry is generally as follows: librarians are responsible for collecting, sorting, summarizing and archiving materials; Responsible for orderly storage, borrowing, copying, timely filing changes, etc. , and follow up the information update and increase brought by the business development process.

Occupation: it is a continuous process of all occupation-related behaviors and activities, related attitudes, values and aspirations. In one's life, it is also a process of career, position change and career goal realization in one's life. Simply put, the state, process and result of a person's career development constitute a person's career. A person has some control over his career development, and he can make use of the opportunities he meets to maximize his success and satisfaction in his career.

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Secondly, let's take a look at what abilities and quality requirements librarians generally need to be competent. Only when you are qualified as a librarian can you have a chance to get professional development. Librarians should usually have the following abilities and qualities, but not limited to them:

Ability to understand business: Librarians should have a deep understanding of the business operation mode and process of the organization in order to better understand and manage the corresponding materials. The ability to understand business is an important factor in determining whether there are career development opportunities.

Basic professional quality: Librarians should have the corresponding professional quality, be serious, responsible, careful, patient, thoughtful and thoughtful, so as to do the corresponding work well. The basic quality determines whether they can do well, but it does not guarantee that they can stand out. On the contrary, it is easy to make people feel that they are careless, forgetful and have poor logical thinking, and librarians are prone to make mistakes in their work.

Communication and coordination skills: Information clerks should have good communication skills when dealing with multiple departments in the organization, which can not only conform to the principles of information management, but also serve the operation of the organization well. Librarians' seemingly static work, in fact, good communication skills are conducive to the transformation of career development.

Learning ability: it is impossible for a person to learn and know all kinds of knowledge at one stage, and it is impossible to acquire all kinds of skills at the same time. The times are developing rapidly, and only by continuous learning can we keep up with the development of the organization. Endless learning and lifelong learning are also the key factors for a person's career to rise.

Third, what is the career development path of librarians?

The career development of librarians will vary according to different industries and businesses. Generally, there are two-way career development channels: management channels and technical channels, management channels and professional channels.

On-the-spot record of engineering projects: through work accumulation and major study, there can be a two-way career development channel. Management channels include quality supervisor, project manager and supervisor. For those with professional technical background and counterparts, they can be converted into technical development channels, including engineers, senior engineers and chief engineers.

Enterprise functional information officer: There is also a two-way career development channel through work accumulation and major study. Let's take the librarian who manages contracts and customer data as an example. Professional channels include business clerks, senior business specialists, sales managers and regional sales managers. Management channels include commercial supervisor, operation management manager, operation management director, president's secretary/assistant, etc.

Librarians in public institutions: Through work accumulation and professional study, there is also a two-way career development channel. Professional channels have clerks and chief clerks; The management channels include deputy section chief and section chief, and they can also hold management positions in rural grass-roots units.

Finally, can librarians get career development opportunities and achieve their career goals? Librarians need to make a serious self-analysis according to the iceberg model.

The iceberg model of competency is a famous model put forward by McLelland, a famous American psychologist, in 1973. The so-called "iceberg model" is to divide the different manifestations of individual qualities into the superficial "part above the iceberg" and the deep "part below the iceberg".

Iceberg model

"Above the iceberg": including basic knowledge and skills, it is an external form of expression, easy to understand and measure, and relatively easy to change and develop through training.

Through hard work, it is relatively easy to obtain. Librarians need to aim at their career development goals according to their own situation, acquire corresponding skills and knowledge step by step, and make preparations. If they need to do research, further study and attend training, they should attend training. Be proactive in your work. If you have the opportunity to do more things, you must take the initiative. Opportunities are always given to those who are prepared. You can't wait for the opportunity to come before trying.

"The part below the iceberg": including social role, self-image, characteristics and motivation, is an intrinsic and unmeasurable part of human beings. They are not easily changed by external influences, but they play a key role in people's behavior and performance.

Librarians should know their own characteristics and internal self-drive, and know whether they are suitable. The part under the iceberg has strong self-drive, and the learning ability, thinking ability and execution ability of general ability can be cultivated and improved through hard work. For example, we can use tools, fishbone diagrams, mind maps and McKinsey's pyramid theory to improve our thinking ability. Complex work will become handy and career will get better development.

To sum up, librarians, as grass-roots posts, also have a good development space. Whether you can get career development opportunities requires your own efforts and preparation, and you need to cultivate two abilities in your daily life: learning ability and thinking ability. I believe there will be a bright future.

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