Librarians And Related Information Professionals
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Tasks & Responsibilities
  • 01
    Carrying out administrative tasks and financial management, human resource management and supervision, maintaining and ensuring the security of information sources and ICT applications in libraries;
  • 02
    Classifying or supervising classification, indexing, cataloguing, circulation of library materials and maintaining records;
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    Selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed materials or audio-visual recordings;
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    Assisting inquirers and retrieving information from manual files or computerised databases;
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    Supervising the maintenance of books and other materials;
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    Managing interlibrary loan systems and information networks;
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    Maintaining liaison with other libraries and library associations;
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    Performing related tasks; and
  • 09
    Enhancing knowledge and coordinating work performance

What are the skills required?

Skills, knowledege and abilities that are essential to carry out a task with determined results. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

Soft Skill
Bahasa Malaysia
Able to speak Bahasa Malaysia
Hard Skill
Collection Development
Library collection development is the process of meeting the information needs of the people (a service population) in a timely and economical manner using information resources locally held, as well as from other organizations.
Soft Skill
Communication
The ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff is essential, no matter what industry you work in.
Soft Skill
English
Able to speak English
Soft Skill
Leadership
Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
Hard Skill
Mandarin
Able to speak Mandarin
Soft Skill
Research
Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
Field of Study Required
Field of study consists of a broad area of academic and skills qualifications that come under a similar branch of subject knowledge. In addition, courses offered under each field of study require similar academic entry requirements.
Library, information and archival studies
Library, information and archival studies
28
Courses
1,656
Graduates

(2019)

Management and administration
Management and administration
1,186
Courses
16,278
Graduates

(2019)

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