Sample Resume for a Librarian

Librarians help people find facts. They organize information and help people find books, magazines, videos, Web sites, and other information.

Librarians decide which books, magazines, movies, and computer equipment to buy. They arrange books and other items so that people can find them. Many librarians work in teams to get the job done.

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Sample Librarian Resume

John F. Joseph
GL-378, Interlibrary Loan Office
Miami, MA 23741,
(308)-305 7298.

Resume Objective:

Education:

Masters of Library Science
Department of Library and Information Studies
School of Education
University of North America at New York
New York, NY 29210

B.A., History
American College
New York, NY 29210

Skills and Certifications:

• Professional Experience
  Progressive experience as a department head responsible for administration of interlibrary loan and document delivery service, circulation, reserve, electronic reserves, paperless document delivery and access, reference service, library and bibliographic instruction, collection development, web authorship and maintenance, hiring and training of library and student assistant staff, and active involvement in library service and administrative projects.
• Analytical Skills
  Analytical by nature. Strong organizational, planning, and detail skills. Good judgement based upon experience and common sense.
• Personal Attributes
  
  • Possesses excellent written and oral English communication skills.
    
  • Highly self-motivated, energetic, reliable, confident, and committed to the professional research and service environment.
    
  • Demonstrated interpersonal, team-building, and team-playing skills.
    
  • Strong work ethics reflect dedication and ability to commit time and energy.
    
  • Easily adapts to and thrives in a multi-cultural environment.
    
  • Honest, reliable, able to meet deadlines and time tables.
    
  • Sense of humor alleviates stress and interactions with staff, patrons, work flow, and work responsibilities while building a productive, congenial service and working environment.

EXPERIENCE:

• Head, Access Company Ltd.
  2003 to Present
  Academic Rank: University Librarian (Full Professor)
  Red Library, Room 345, University Campus
  Florida International University, Tamiami Trail
  Miami, FL 32479

Department Head Responsibilities:-
Responsible for the administration of Interlibrary Loan, Intercampus Loan including ILLiad online ILL management system and the Ariel Desktop Document Delivery service, Circulation, Course Reserves, Electronic Reserves, Serials Shelves Maintenance, and General Collection Stacks Maintenance. Provides leadership in matters regarding customer service, work flow, work analysis, staff training and development, budget maintenance and planning, and patron services. Provides an environment for staff independence within a structural framework of departmental policies, goals, and objectives. Participates as a member of the library management team.


• Interlibrary Loan Librarian
  1995 to 2003
  Academic Rank: Associate University Librarian
  RL-241, Interlibrary Loan Office
  Red Library, University Campus
  Florida National College
  Tamiami Trail
  Miami, FL 33199

Interlibrary Loan Responsibilities:-
Responsible for comprehensive administration including budget control, information and document delivery access, hiring and training of staff, work flow management and assessment, statistics and reports, public relations, and the application of improvements and innovative changes in service.

Reference Service Responsibilities:-
Provide reference service to library patrons. Actively participates in departmental service, collection development projects, and electronic and print reference material evaluations. Assist in organizing new library services, workshops, and freshmen orientation seminars.

Library and Bibliograpic Instruction Responsibilities:-
Participate in the planning, implementation, and teaching of bibliographic and computer instruction for freshmen, students, and faculty. Teach weekly class for freshman instruction classes for the library's web-based OPAC. Provide computer and print instruction for faculty teaching and research graduate assistants.

Distance Library Services Responsibilities:-
Coordinates the Distance Library Services requests and of university faculty engaged in distance learning education and classes from the library relating to research and information access. Responsible for providing and fostering contacts within the library for university faculty.

Professional Service Responsibilities:-
Serve on library committees including but not limited to recruitment, program planning, staff development, reference service development and administration, and professional activities.

• Evening Reference Librarian, 1989 to 1993
  Phillips College
  (Institution no longer exists.)
  Winston-Salem, NC 27106

Professional Responsibilities:-
Primary responsibilities included reference and bibliographic research assistance. Provided library tours to freshman students and faculty. Taught bibliographic and research instruction classes to freshman. Performed original cataloging and collection development.

Senior Library Technical Assistant, 1987 to 1993
The Coy C. Carpenter Library
Bowman Gray School of Medicine,
Wake University
New York, NY 29210

Responsibilities:-
Assigned to the Learning Resources Center, providing computer instruction and audio-visual assistance to medical school faculty and students. Participated in annual library orientation tours. Worked in Circulation, Serials, and Document Delivery departments

Description for Librarian

JOB TITLE:
Librarian
JOB PURPOSE:
Consequently, librarians, or information professionals, increasingly are combining traditional duties with tasks involving quickly changing technology. Librarians assist people in finding information and using it effectively for personal and professional purposes.
REPORTS TO:

LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY: Librarians must have knowledge of a wide variety of scholarly and public information sources and must follow trends related to publishing, computers, and the media in order to oversee the selection and organization of library materials. Librarians manage staff and develop and direct information programs and systems for the public, to ensure that information is organized in a manner that meets users’ needs.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A master’s degree in library science (MLS) is necessary for librarian positions in most public, academic, and special libraries and in some school libraries. The Federal Government requires that the librarians it employs have an MLS or the equivalent in education and experience. Many colleges and universities offer MLS programs, but employers often prefer graduates of the approximately 56 schools accredited by the American Library Association. Most MLS programs require a bachelor’s degree, but no specific undergraduate program is required.

Duties and responsibilities:

The traditional concept of a library is being redefined from a place to access paper records or books to one that also houses the most advanced media, including CD-ROM, the Internet, virtual libraries, and remote access to a wide range of resources. Consequently, librarians, or information professionals, increasingly are combining traditional duties with tasks involving quickly changing technology. Librarians assist people in finding information and using it effectively for personal and professional purposes. Librarians must have knowledge of a wide variety of scholarly and public information sources and must follow trends related to publishing, computers, and the media in order to oversee the selection and organization of library materials. Librarians manage staff and develop and direct information programs and systems for the public, to ensure that information is organized in a manner that meets users’ needs.

Most librarian positions incorporate three aspects of library work: User services, technical services, and administrative services. Still, even librarians specializing in one of these areas have other responsibilities. Librarians in user services, such as reference and children’s librarians, work with patrons to help them find the information they need. The job involves analyzing users’ needs to determine what information is appropriate, as well as searching for, acquiring, and providing the information. The job also includes an instructional role, such as showing users how to access information. For example, librarians commonly help users navigate the Internet so they can search for relevant information efficiently. Librarians in technical services, such as acquisitions and cataloguing, acquire and prepare materials for use and often do not deal directly with the public. Librarians in administrative services oversee the management and planning of libraries: negotiate contracts for services, materials, and equipment; supervise library employees; perform public-relations and fundraising duties; prepare budgets; and direct activities to ensure that everything functions properly.

In small libraries or information centers, librarians usually handle all aspects of the work. They read book reviews, publishers’ announcements, and catalogues to keep up with current literature and other available resources, and they select and purchase materials from publishers, wholesalers, and distributors. Librarians prepare new materials by classifying them by subject matter and describe books and other library materials to make them easy to find. Librarians supervise assistants, who prepare cards, computer records, or other access tools that direct users to resources. In large libraries, librarians often specialize in a single area, such as acquisitions, cataloguing, bibliography, reference, special collections, or administration. Teamwork is increasingly important to ensure quality service to the public.

Librarians also compile lists of books, periodicals, articles, and audiovisual materials on particular subjects; analyze collections; and recommend materials. They collect and organize books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and other materials in a specific field, such as rare books, genealogy, or music. In addition, they coordinate programs such as storytelling for children and literacy skills and book talks for adults, conduct classes, publicize services, provide reference help, write grants, and oversee other administrative matters.

Librarians are classified according to the type of library in which they work: A public library; school library media center; college, university, or other academic library; or special library. Some librarians work with specific groups, such as children, young adults, adults, or the disadvantaged. In school library media centers, librarians—often called school media specialists—help teachers develop curricula, acquire materials for classroom instruction, and sometimes team teach.

Librarians also work in information centers or libraries maintained by government agencies, corporations, law firms, advertising agencies, museums, professional associations, unions, medical centers, hospitals, religious organizations, and research laboratories. They acquire and arrange an organization’s information resources, which usually are limited to subjects of special interest to the organization. These special librarians can provide vital information services by preparing abstracts and indexes of current periodicals, organizing bibliographies, or analyzing background information and preparing reports on areas of particular interest. For example, a special librarian working for a corporation could provide the sales department with information on competitors or new developments affecting the field. A medical librarian may provide information about new medical treatments, clinical trials, and standard procedures to health professionals, patients, consumers, and corporations. Government document librarians, who work for government agencies and depository libraries in each of the States, preserve government publications, records, and other documents that make up a historical record of government actions.

Many libraries have access to remote databases and maintain their own computerized databases. The widespread use of automation in libraries makes database-searching skills important to librarians. Librarians develop and index databases and help train users to develop searching skills for the information they need. Some libraries are forming consortiums with other libraries to allow patrons to access a wider range of databases and to submit information requests to several libraries simultaneously. The Internet also has greatly expanded the amount of available reference information. Librarians must be aware of how to use these resources in order to locate information.

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Time loads of Librarian

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

More than 2 out of 10 librarians work part time. Public and college librarians often work weekends and evenings, as well as some holidays. School librarians usually have the same workday and vacation schedules as classroom teachers. Special librarians usually work normal business hours, but in fast-paced industries—such as advertising or legal services—they can work longer hours when needed.

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How to Write A Good Resume Objective

1. Avoid job titles - Resume Objective.

Job titles such as "Secretary" or "Market Manager" can involve very different activities in different organizations. The same job can often have different titles in different organizations and using such a title may very well limit your being considered for such jobs as "Office Manager" or "Marketing Assistant." It is best to use broad categories of jobs rather than specific titles, so that you can be considered for a wide variety of jobs related to the skills you have. For example, instead of "Secretary" you could say "Responsible Office Management or Clerical Position" if that is what you would really consider - and qualify for.

2. Define a "bracket of responsibility" to include the possibility of upward mobility - Resume Objective.

While you may be willing to accept a specific job drawing on your current skills keep yourself open for jobs that require higher levels of responsibility and pay. Use categories of skills and titles so that the person reviewing your resume might consider you for other openings.

In effect, you should define a 'bracket of responsibility' in your objective that includes the range of jobs that you are willing to accept. This bracket should include the lower range of jobs that you would consider as well as those requiring higher levels of responsibility, up to and including those that you think you could handle. Even if you have not handled those higher levels of responsibility in the past, many employers may consider you for them if you have the skills to support the objective.

3. Include your most important skills - Resume Objective.

What are the most important skills needed for the job you want? Consider including one or more of these as being required in the job that you seek. The implication here is that if you are looking for a job that requires 'Organizational Skills,' then you have those skills. Of course, your interview (and resume) should support those skills with specific examples.

4. Include specifics if these are important to you - Resume Objective.

If you have substantial experience in a particular industry (such as 'Computer Controlled Machine Tools') or have a narrow and specific objective that you really want (such as 'Art Therapist with the Mentally Handicapped'), then it is OK to state this. But, in so doing, realize that by narrowing your alternatives down you will often not be considered for other jobs for which you might qualify. Still, if that is what you want, it just may be worth pursuing (though I would still encourage you to have a second, more general objective just in case).

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Finalize Your Resume Objective Statement

The most important is that you can clearly state what sort of a job you want and know what kinds of skills and experiences are needed to do well in that job. Even if you decide to change your job objective later, it is very important that you decide on one now for effective marketing.

Don’t be afraid to interview for jobs that seem far outside your skill set. If you don’t force yourself to reach higher you will never be considered. Don’t expect lady luck to come knocking when you could have opened the door and walked thru. Ask about opportunities for advancement. Apply for jobs above your last experience and challenge yourself.

Having spent years working with highly paid executives it is obvious most executives are learning as they go. Few know exactly what they are doing. What they do know is how to take chances, accept risk and turn everyday events into income producing opportunities. Make yourself reach for that next level up. You too can make it to the top of your field/company. See you there.