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  2. Librarian - Wikipedia

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    A librarian is a person who professionally works managing information. Librarians' common activities include providing access to information, conducting research, creating and managing information systems, creating, leading, and evaluating educational programs, and providing instruction on information literacy to users.

  3. Teacher-librarian - Wikipedia

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    A teacher-librarian, also known as a school librarian or school library media specialist (SLMS) is a certified librarian who also has training in teaching.. According to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), the official title for a certified librarian who works in a school in the United States is school librarian.

  4. Subject librarian - Wikipedia

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    Subject librarians need both academic knowledge of their subject as well as skills in library science.While some argue about whether formal education in the specialist subject is necessary, [4] while others believe it is a vital component of a subject librarian's education.

  5. Public library - Wikipedia

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    The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.

  6. Librarians in North America - Wikipedia

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    The public librarian: a report of the public library inquiry (Columbia University Press, 1952) Carrier, Esther Jane. Fiction in public libraries, 1876-1900 (Scarecrow Press, 1965) Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920. (Free Press (1979)) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Jones, Theodore.

  7. Reference desk - Wikipedia

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    Librarian, Ballard Carnegie Library, Seattle, Washington c. 1907 The reference desk or information desk of a library is a public service counter where professional librarians provide library users with direction to library materials, advice on library collections and services, and expertise on multiple kinds of information from multiple sources.

  8. Periodicals librarian - Wikipedia

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    The duties of a periodicals librarian are changing as technology and the needs of library patrons change. The duties may include, but are not limited to, establishing and maintaining subscriptions to periodicals in print, microform, and electronic formats; providing personal assistance and guidance in identifying, locating, and using periodicals; designing and conducting instructional sessions ...

  9. Library technician - Wikipedia

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    Library technicians differ from librarians in terms of education and main duties. Library technicians typically require a diploma, or, ideally, an associate degree in library technology from a community college or other similar institution, whereas librarians require a master's degree in library science from an accredited university-based graduate school of library and information science.

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