Career Opportunities in Library & Information Science
The traditional libraries contained only books but in the present day the libraries have periodicals, journals, micro films, audio videos, cassettes and slides for various purposes such as education, research, reference and pleasure. Career Opportunities in Library and Information Science is part of a series of books from Checkmark Books.
Library and Information Science, is a field which involves the use of knowledge utilized in various fields and organizational techniques, educational factors and matters which have bearing, direct or indirect, in the library.
Library science is constantly evolving as incorporating new topics like database management, information architecture and knowledge management, among others. It is an interesting subject and provides a great opportunity to have the knowledge of wide variety of information sources.
The career options available in this field are:
Library Assistant
Librarian
Deputy Librarian
Consultant Librarian
Technical assistant
Head of Information Center
Senior and Junior Information Analyst
A person seeking a career in Library and Information Science field should have atleast a bachelor?s degree in Library Science to work in this profession. Graduates from any stream make a career in Bachelors degree in library science the duration of which is one year/ two semesters. After that, students can go for Masters Degree in library science, which is of one-year duration/two semesters course. Advanced studies in Library & Information Science include M. Phil and Ph.D. Besides, there are also diploma and certificate courses. B
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resource (NISCAIR) New Delhi and Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC) Bengaluru are two prime institute offering Library and Information Science courses
Basically, a good librarian should have keen interest in books, the computer knowledge related to library. One of the most deciding factors to stay long in this field is that one has to be creative and have to have new ideas especially on matters pertaining to Information science. They must possess a good communication skills, customer engagement, great management skills, good understanding for needs of the user etc.
After the completion of the Library Science course a person having either a bachelor or masters degree or M.Phil can get the employment in recognized government maintained libraries, organization of private nature, foreign embassies, organization where there is large generation and maintenance of information and handling of such information, colleges, universities , schools, having their own libraries, libraries maintained for law study or any other kind of a special library maintained by an institution etc.
In this Library and Information Science field salaries vary according the persons experience in the field, qualification one possesses, the institute one is studying, the placement which one acquires etc. Librarians employed in government museum, archives, galleries have higher earnings than those in colleges and universities. Librarians working in research institutes and private documentation centres also have handsome earnings.