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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3433

Gallery, museum and library technicians

Gallery, museum and library technicians prepare artworks, specimens and artefacts for collections, arrange and construct gallery exhibits, and assist librarians to organize and operate systems for handling recorded material and files. Tasks include - (a) mounting and preparing objects for display; (b) designing and arranging exhibit furnishings, display cases and display areas; (c) assisting in setting up lighting and display equipment; (d) receiving, shipping, packing and unpacking exhibits; (e) ordering new library materials and maintaining library records and circulation systems; (f) cataloguing printed and recorded material; (g) entering data into databases and editing computer records; (h) operating audiovisual and reprographic equipment; (i) searching and verifying bibliographic data. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Gallery technician - Library technician - Museum technician - Taxidermist

The mildest of the ILO’s four “exposed” groups. It ranks 298 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • taxidermist
  • big data archive librarian
  • art handler

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

63
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 1

AI could take on 37 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 37 = 63

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

48.5
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

34.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 48.8 · hand skill 39.2 · cramped spaces 16 · 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 48.5 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 70, while the average is 37. 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. 70

    Entering data into databases and editing computer records

    Medium
  2. 61

    Searching and verifying bibliographic data.

    Medium
  3. 56

    Ordering new library materials and maintaining library records and circulation systems

    Medium
  4. 35

    Cataloguing printed and recorded material

    Low
  5. 28

    Operating audiovisual and reprographic equipment

    Low
  6. 25.3

    Designing and arranging exhibit furnishings, display cases and display areas

    Low
  7. 25

    Assisting in setting up lighting and display equipment

    Low
  8. 16.5

    Mounting and preparing objects for display

    Very Low
  9. 16.5

    Receiving, shipping, packing and unpacking exhibits

    Very Low

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.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
68
AI does it for you
47

Helping wins by 21 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3993

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.4. This one is below that.