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Hello Professional,

Can anybody provides information about duties and responsibilities of Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Library Clerk, Library Attendant. Its urgent .Please do the needful.

Librarian
Allana College of Architecture,
Pune.

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Dear Sir,

Please find here following information for you, it may be your interest.

Sl. No.

Name of Posts

1

MTS ( Library Attendant & Library Peon)

2

Library Clerk (Semi -Professional Grade – II)

3

Library Clerk(Semi –Professional Grade – I)UDC

4

Library & Information Assistant (LIA)

5

Asstt. Library & Information Officer (ALIO)

6

Library & Information Officer (LIO)

7

Senior Library & Information Officer S(LIO)

Duties and responsibilities of Government Librarians compared with School Librarians

(Acc. Bottoms up)

Sr. No. Library Professionals and Librarians in Government set up Duties & Responsibilities of School Librarian
1. Acquisition of books, periodicals (National & International), Newspapers, Govt. publications reports, Govt. notifications, monographs, Non print materials such as microfiche, microfilm, CDs, DVDs, and audio video materials, scrutinizing and processing of bills for payment.  Acquisition of textbook, reference, books, newspapers and light reading books etc.
2. Technical processing of books: Classification, Cataloguing, assigning subject headings, Writing Call numbers in three places in a book, Preparation of due date slips, Pasting of book pockets in every book, Tooling, Shelving of books.  Technical processing of acquired material
  1. Classification
  2. Cataloguing
  3. Tooling
3. Cater to the information needs of Senior Officers like Secretaries, Addl. Secretaries, FAs, Jt. Secretaries, Directors and other officers including staff members of the Ministries and Departments, University and College faculty members, Research Scholars both form India and Abroad, students, General Users. Cater to the information needs of

a)     School teachers / staff

b)     Students

4. Lending Services – (Issue and return of books,

Reference books and periodicals ),Reference / referral service to the users ,Documentation services,Current awareness services,SDI services,Indexing and Abstracting services, Compilation bibliographies on demand, News clipping services

Providing services of Non print materials to its users

Conservation & Preservation of Manuscripts, rare books and such other reading material.  Conduct orientation programs for new users and staff members of the respective departments, how to use the departmental library resources.

Services

Lending services ( Issue & Return of the text books, reference books and magazines)

5. ICT : Automation of libraries : with total Library  management Soft ware such as e-Granthalayala, LIBSYS, VTLS, TLMS, NETLIB, LIBMAN, Koha, etc

Digitization  Libraries digitizing their manuscripts rare books, microfilms, Gazette notifications, Committee and commission reports, annual reports and other important reading material for providing information through web.

Online databases: Providing information retrieval services through online databases.

The Librarians are uploading the library data on web for online services to the users.

Maintenance of data base server

 IT services :

Some school libraries are also working towards automation of library

6. Display of current Journals, Daily newspapers and new arrivals ( Books) Display of Newspapers
7. Maintain safety standards and over see the upkeep of the library premises. General upkeep and safety standards of Library

Dear

Please find attachment for duties and responsibilities of library staffs in University and College library. Please see from page no. 9 on words. 

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Thank you sir.........

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