Library, Info and Archive Companies (LIAS) Assistants carry out a entrance line/international function in all sectors (together with public, well being, authorized, business, academic, authorities, heritage/cultural and leisure), supporting society by way of anticipating, figuring out, stimulating and satisfying the wants of current and potential customers for entry to data in an moral and honest or applicable method.
In abstract, LIAS Assistants assist customers discover the knowledge and assets they want so as to resolve their particular question. Person wants range throughout sectors and will embrace discovering textbooks to assist their studying; authorized supplies to assist legislation actions; pictures to create a design; trademark data to create a brand new product; well being data to diagnose a affected person and so forth. Digital companies, digital literacy, data literacy, common literacy, customer support, drawback fixing, organisation of assets and programs underpin and characterise the work on this occupation.
They work with individuals from all elements of society and the workforce, offering important digital and analogue data companies – issuing and returning supplies, organizing collections, answering analysis and data queries, enhancing prospects’ literacy abilities, – very often on the forefront of innovation. Of their each day work LIAS Assistants can work together with prospects or service customers, together with most people, college students, researchers and educational employees, skilled employees (e.g. in well being, legislation, enterprise) and so forth. Additionally they work immediately with different colleagues who carry out completely different organisation features equivalent to IT assist, buying, advertising and marketing, human assets, authorized companies, constructing services and so forth.
Utilizing extremely specialised abilities and information LIAS Assistants are answerable for creating, gathering, organising, storing and accessing particular data,assets and information that relates on to the companies provided inside bodily and digital collections. Additionally they present important assist to service customers aiding them to look and make use of that data. They might usually be managed or overseen by the top of service, however there’s a considerable amount of self path/self administration on this occupation and repair assistants are anticipated to make use of their initiative when coping with a buyer question (inside or exterior).
The duties usually happen in a public areas equivalent to libraries, archives, hospitals and different business/workplace or information-based organisations equivalent to legislation companies, universities, faculties, the media (e.g. broadcasting, journalism, film-making, social media) and so forth. In small organisations, equivalent to legislation companies and faculties, the companies assistant will very often be engaged on their very own or independently , reporting on to the top of the organisation/establishment.
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Information
K1: The organisation during which they work, its relationship with stakeholders/companions, its services
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K2: The organisation’s place inside the wider, nationwide library, archive, information and data administration sector
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K3: How efficient administration and team-working contribute to a profitable service
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K4: The laws relating to data use equivalent to copyright, mental property, licensing and information safety
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K5: The character of data and the worth of its numerous types, i.e. main and secondary sources, print and digital (together with databases); present, semi-current and archival
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K6: The administration of data assets and the significance of organising data, e.g. labelling, storing and the function of catalogues and search instruments
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K7: The strategies for storing analogue and digital collections and which media serves the needs finest, e.g. packaging of bodily assets, use of on-line repositories
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K8: The technique of buying, sustaining, disposing of and finding paperwork, in accordance with the organisation’s assortment administration pointers and authorized obligations
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K9: The idea of digital continuity guaranteeing authentic information are preserved as required
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K10: The precise options of archives, media, and so forth., (as distinct from different types of assortment), their authorized and historic worth, and archival rules
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K11: The character of collections, how they’re altering, and the organisational coverage regarding collections administration and improvement selections
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K12: The character of data, mental capital and the social networks by way of which they’re shared and exploited
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K13: The usage of collaborative instruments and actions equivalent to Google Drive and Teams, Sharepoint and Enterprise Social Media
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K14: The character and worth of analysis, together with that undertaken by practitioners and that which is mediated, e.g. methods of assessing particular person data wants and the way to assist analysis and retrieval of the precise data
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K15: Some primary data/digital literacy frameworks and the way these assist the analysis and dissemination of data
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K16: The function that data professionals and companies play in growing information and literacy (studying, writing and numeracy) and common cultural enrichment
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K17: The capabilities of web-based applied sciences and content material administration programs of specific relevance to the sector, e.g. to supply alternate options, to retailer and seek for data
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K18: Customers’ wants and information-seeking behaviour and the way completely different data companies cater to various kinds of person
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K19: Strategies for selling companies and collections to customers and non-users and the way to information them by way of their information-seeking / studying journey
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K20: How companies would possibly affect customers otherwise, relying on their age, incapacity, ethnicity, and so forth
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K21: The affect of on-line environments/areas and bodily areas on the supply of companies
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K22: Tips on how to consider current companies in opposition to benchmarks / requirements / buyer want
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Abilities
S1: Interpret and implement coverage, e.g. speaking clearly the fundamental copyright restrictions and causes for not sharing private information
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S2: Undertake regulation and compliance checking, e.g. so as to guarantee information safety shouldn’t be breached
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S3: Clear up person issues in a variety of conditions utilizing their information and interpretation
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S4: Use data administration processes to retailer, handle and retrieve information and information to assist collaboration, exploitation and the organisation’s Info Administration (IM) practices
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S5: Describe and prepare materials/assets, by observing and making use of recognized cataloguing requirements so as to create on-line catalogues and different discovering aids to satisfy customers’ wants
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S6: Make use of data retrieval strategies to establish and use related media and programs, e.g. looking out on-line databases, catalogues or bodily shops, and EDRMS (digital doc document administration programs)
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S7: Carry out preservation (analogue/bodily and digital) practices to maintain collections bodily protected utilizing institutional/sector pointers, and supporting work that gives digital entry by creating alternate options that meet a variety of person necessities
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S8: Use enquiry strategies to make clear and meet customers’ data necessities and handle expectations, e.g. by signposting to different assets and offering options
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S9: Develop information sharing with customers, cultivating an atmosphere the place information is freely shared and sought inside a ‘protected’ atmosphere, together with on-line options
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S10: Use related approaches to studying assist to contribute to the event of studying actions for various audiences to reinforce information and literacy, e.g. reader improvement
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S11: Choose and use applicable instruments and applied sciences to assist customers in researching and disseminating data, e.g. databases, serps, digital libraries, repositories and social media
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S12: Develop data and digital abilities to assist customers to establish, discover, entry and consider data, to share information and to advertise self-help
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S13: Display data sharing by contributing to studying actions for particular audiences, e.g. inductions and occasions, catering to quite a lot of ranges of data and understanding
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S14: Use promotion strategies for assets in order that customers and potential customers are conscious of their worth, affect and profit, e.g. by curating collections and shows in efficient methods, endeavor outreach actions to information customers to attain independence of their use of data
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S15: Implement the organisation’s assortment administration coverage, e.g. by way of figuring out inventory that ought to be acquired and that which is now not used or wanted, and relegating or eradicating these appropriately
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S16: Develop the service by assessing the training atmosphere and anticipating person wants, e.g. re-organising research/digital areas, suggesting enhancements to catalogues or internet pages
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S17: Use teamwork and collaboration to attain objectives, e.g. with stakeholders and companions past the organisation
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S18: Use data provision to allow customers to entry supplies, e.g. by way of lending books/artefacts, emailing paperwork, accessing authentic archives, signposting hyperlinks to data
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S19: Train communication abilities – oral, written, presentation, interpersonal, listening, assertiveness (on-line and nose to nose)
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Behaviours
B1: Practise in an moral and authorized method
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B2: Respect for the integrity of data objects and for the mental effort of those that created them
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B3: Display management and initiative inside the boundaries of particular duties
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B4: Attentiveness, guaranteeing assets offered and entry are most applicable to person wants
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B5: Options centered
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B6: Concern for the general public good in all skilled issues, together with respect for variety inside society, and the marketing of equal alternatives and human rights
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B7: Shield the confidentiality of all issues regarding data customers
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B8: Act with integrity, honesty and accountability
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B9: Informative and supportive, guaranteeing customers are conscious of the complete scope and remit of the service
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B10: Act as an advocate for the advantages and worth of the companies delivered
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B11: Concern for the conservation and preservation of our data heritage in all codecs
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B12: Diligence in respect to companies for which they’re accountable in assembly the wants of customers
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B13: Adaptable to alter
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B14: Work collaboratively with others
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B15: Concern for balancing the wants of precise and potential customers and the affordable calls for of employers
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B16: Provision of the absolute best service inside out there assets
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