Your day-to-day tasks may include:

• managing staff, budgets and statistical returns
• using IT systems to catalogue, classify and index stock
• dealing with counter, phone and email enquiries
• organising IT access and solving user problems
• keeping up to date with new publications and selecting stock
• making sure staff follow Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Copyright laws
• promoting library services through displays, talks and community events like reading clubs
• attending meetings and conferences

You could work at a library, at a school, at a college or at a university.

You could move into a senior job as a manager. Another option is to take responsibility for a specialist service or collection.

If you hold a senior position in your organisation, you could apply for professional registration of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).