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What is the nature of work of a librarian?

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Librarians' duties and focus vary widely, but every librarian does much more than checking out books or reading all day, as is the popular public perception. Their duties can range from creating original cataloging records for items in library collections to creating entire taxonomies to order companies' data to using their expert skills to answer complex reference questions

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Why do you choose to become a librarian?

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Interviewer generally appreciate possitive attitude, so lay emphasis on having a possitive a attitude. The possible answer could be,

I appreciated being able to combine my desire to help people with a reason to learn about everything.

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Who are special librarians?

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Special librarians work in corporate libraries and information centers, many of them as solo librarians. Often they work with information in a nonlibrary setting, having job titles ranging from knowledge manager to taxonomist.

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What is different about being a children librarian?

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Children librarian use the unique task of welcoming children into reading and research-both traditionally and techonologcially. With libraries going hi-tech, librarians would have to help young surfers navigate, by walking around terminals. It would at times be adviceable to get perviews of the books. A chlidren librarian may also take steps to make the the place more exciting by planning some sort of activities. Basically make the library a fun and useful place for the children.

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Do you see any drawback of the Dewey Decimal Classification?

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DDC has been criticized for being inadequate. DDC's decimal system means that it is less hospitable to the addition of new subjects, as opposed to Library of Congress Classification which has 21 classes at the top level. Another side effect of this is that DDC notations can be very much longer compared to the equivalent class in other classification systems

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State the classification system based on functionality.

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enumerative: produce an alphabetical list of subject headings, assign numbers to each heading in alphabetical order
hierarchial :divides subjects hierarchically, from most general to most specific
faceted: or analytico-synthetic: divides subjects into mutually exclusive orthogonal facets

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Can you give a general overview of the working condition of a librarian?

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Librarians spend a significant portion of time at their desks or in front of computer terminals; extended work at video display terminals . Assisting users in obtaining information or books for their jobs, homework, or recreational reading , working with users under deadlines. Some librarians lift and carry books, and some have to climb ladders to reach high stacks, although most modern libraries have readily accessible stacks. Librarians in small organizations sometimes shelve books themselves.

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Thomas Jansen

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:39 AM

I think this is more a description of a library clerk. Librarians with a bachelors and esp. masters degree are more into the organization of the media in the library (BA) and do things like indexing to ensure findability (BA). Also they decide which books and journals suit the patrons and ensure accessibility of (electronic) documents (MA). Also they are into (long-term) archiving and cost/use calculations (MA)

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