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The School of Information Studies has offered courses in library studies for more than a century, making it the oldest school in Canada offering library education. The area of library studies remains an important component of the MISt program. Library studies courses relate to the identification, organization, preservation, retrieval, and dissemination of library and information resources in all formats. Among the following courses, and provide the foundations for cataloguing and reference services.
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Careers in Library Studies
Practice settings
Librarians work in many settings,听from academic institutions and听public environments to the private sector.
Primary responsibilities
Librarians mediate access to the vast amount of available information in order to respond to the needs of their clients or users. Responsibilities comprise the management (identification, retrieval, organization, and dissemination) of information in all formats (electronic/digital, audio/video, print). Specific job responsibilities include organizing resources through cataloguing and classification processes, conducting reference interviews, and offering training sessions.
Examples of job titles
- Academic librarian
- Business information specialist
- Cataloguer
- Health sciences librarian
- Indexer/abstracter
- Information architects
- Law librarian
- Public librarian
- Special librarian
- Youth services public librarians
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Potential employers
- Universities
- Municipal libraries
- School boards
- Government agencies (e.g., Business Development Bank of Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Library and Archives Canada)
- Government departments (e.g., Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Justice Canada)
- The business sector (e.g., Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Alcan, SNC Lavalin, KPMG)
- ...and more!
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