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Professionals · code 2622

Librarians and related information professionals

Librarians and related information professionals collect, select, develop, organize and maintain library collections and other information repositories; organize and control other library services and provide information for users. Tasks include - (a) organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (b) selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material; (c) organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material; (d) managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks; (e) retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems; (f) conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users’ needs; (g) devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information; (h) preparing scholarly papers and reports; (i) performing manual, online and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bibliographer - Cataloguer - Librarian

Most of the tasks are affected. It ranks 397 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • librarian
  • information manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

44.7
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 3

AI could take on 55.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 55.3 = 44.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

24.1
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

20.1
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 25 · hand skill 25 · cramped spaces 10.2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 24.1 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 61.5, while the average is 55.3. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 61.5

    Devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information

    Medium
  2. 61.5

    Performing manual, on-line and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials.

    Medium
  3. 56

    Retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems

    Medium
  4. 55

    Preparing scholarly papers and reports

    Medium
  5. 54.5

    Organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material

    Medium
  6. 54.5

    Conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users' needs

    Medium
  7. 53.5

    Organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material

    Medium
  8. 51.3

    Selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material

    Medium
  9. 50.2

    Managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks

    Medium

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

3 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
70
AI does it for you
47.3

Helping wins by 22.7 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2242, 2246, 2249

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.5. This one is below that.