Editing Librarian (section)

===Additional responsibilities===
[[File:Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, 2020 Official Portrait (50298151842).jpg|thumb|right|[[Carla Hayden]], Current [[Librarian of Congress]]]]
Experienced librarians may take administrative positions such as library or information center director or learning resource officer.  Similar to the management of any other organization, they are concerned with the long-term planning of the library, and its relationship with its parent organization (the city or county for a public library, the college/university for an academic library, or the organization served by a [[special library]]).  In smaller or specialized libraries, librarians typically perform a wide range of the different duties.

Representative examples of librarian responsibilities:
*Researching topics of interest for their constituencies.
*Referring patrons to other [[community organization]]s and [[government]] offices.
*Suggesting appropriate books ("readers' advisory") for children of different reading levels and recommending [[novel]]s for recreational reading.
*Reviewing books and journal databases
*Working with other education organisations to establish continual, lifelong learning and further education initiatives
*Facilitating and promoting reading clubs.
*Developing programs for library users of all ages and backgrounds.
*Managing access to electronic information resources.
*Assessing library services and collections in order to best meet library users' needs.
*Building and maintaining collections to respond to changing community needs or demands
*Creating [[Pathfinder (Library Science)|pathfinders]]
*Writing grants to gain funding for expanded program or collections
*Digitizing collections for online access
*Publishing articles in library science journals [[File:Defense.gov News Photo 021203-A-7236L-008.jpg|thumb|right|A librarian pushes a book cart at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on December 3, 2002]]
*Answering incoming reference questions via telephone, postal mail, email, fax, and chat
*Delivering arts and cultural activities to local communities
*Initiating and establishing creative digital activities to introduce children to coding, engineering and website building
*Marking promotion and advocacy of library services 
* Assisting job seekers and local businesses
*Making and enforcing computer appointments on the public access Internet computers.<ref>"''The librarian's Internet survival guide: strategies for the high-tech reference desk"'', Irene E. McDermott, Barbara E. Quint, p. 1-2, Information Today, {{ISBN|1-57387-129-X}}</ref>