Librarianship and Types of Librarianship by Muhammad Yousuf Ali
Librarianship is one of the emerging professions. Librarians are working in the different types of libraries. Most of young librarians and students are unaware about the important specialization in the librarianship. This special piece described the Librarianship and different types of librarianship. This article discussed the following main points.
What is Librarianship?
What are the main different types of Librarianship?
What is librarianship?
Librarianship
Librarianship is profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
What are the main different types of Librarianship?
There are Seven important types of Librarians.
- Embedded Librarian
- Liaison Librarian
- Medical Librarian
- Reference Librarian
- Research Librarian
- Data Librarian
- Technical Librarian
Embedded Librarian
Embedded librarians are integrated information experts that offer more direct research assistance to groups of faculty and students than the typical one-shot instruction session, often over the course of an entire semester.
Liaison Librarian
A liaison is a Libraries faculty designated as the formal contact person between the library and a particular academic unit (school, department, or centre). In keeping with the library’s mission, the primary responsibility of a liaison is to meet the unit’s information needs through instruction, collection development, research assistance to faculty and students, and the fulfillment of other unit needs related to the library such as support for accreditation reviews.
Medical Librarian
Medical librarians, also known as health information professionals, medical information specialists, or multiple variations thereof, find, analyses, provide access to and present critical information that improves patient care and supports health and medical education, research, and publication.
Reference Librarian
Reference librarians recommend, interpret, evaluate, and/or use information resources to help patrons with specific information needs. Requests for assistance often occur in person at the library, reference is increasingly conducted by phone, chat and email.
Research Librarian
A research librarian is responsible for organizing and maintaining research support service and information for an organization university or research-based institutions. Research Librarian is always ready to support researchers and research support.
Data Librarian
Data librarians are professional library staff engaged in managing research data, using research data as a resource or supporting researchers dealing with data. Data librarians also manage infographic and data visualization activities.
Technical Librarian
A technical services librarian specializes in acquiring, organizing cataloguing classification and technical all kinds of library materials.
How to Cite this Article
M.Y. Ali, (2023). Librarianship and Types of Librarianship.
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