Library managers

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the activities of a library or library system, archive or archive system, museum or art gallery or a technical department within such an institution

• Develop and administer policies and programs

• Prepare and administer budgets

• Develop, promote and implement public relations and promotional programs

• Prepare funding and grant applications and proposals

• Prepare operational and financial reports, analyses and recommendations

• Recruit and provide training for professional, technical and clerical staff

• May perform the duties of a librarian, archivist or curator in smaller institutions.

• Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers may specialize in a specific type of collection.

• Library managers

• A graduate degree in library and information science and Several years of experience as a librarian, including supervisory experience are required.

• Archive managers

• There is mobility between library and archive managers and between museum and art gallery managers.