| What type of library do you work in? | Total | % |
| Academic Library |
395 |
42.93 |
| Special Library |
116 |
12.61 |
| Large Public Library |
63 |
6.85 |
| Medium Public Library |
138 |
15.00 |
| Small Public Library |
80 |
8.70 |
| One Person Library |
10 |
1.09 |
| School Library |
6 |
0.65 |
| I’m a Student |
16 |
1.74 |
| I’m unemployed at the moment |
5 |
0.54 |
| I don’t work in a library (but I do work with libraries) |
62 |
6.74 |
| Other |
29 |
3.15 |
| Grand Total |
920 |
Of the 62 who answered that they didn’t work in a library, but with libraries, 49 provided clarification:
- I work for a provincial library, and am seconded part time to a library consortium providing shared ILS services.
- work for ILS vendor
- I work for a consortium who provides the ILS, Portal, online resources access and manages all the hardware and software for 3 separate academic institutions, overall there are 15 separate libraries between the 3 schools. All are undergraduate schools.
- I am a library school professor.
- I tutor students in different subjects regarding Library Sciences.
- Research
- I work for a state funded Regional Library System that provides support and services (consulting, CE, etc.) for all types of libraries in the geographic area.
- shelving new materials, etc
- I teach in a library school.
- Member Services Manager for a library consortium (we run their ILS)
- regional library service provider
- Collaborate on data sharing technologies for science data curation.
- I am supporting an open source software for digital libraries and repositories. On behalf of this i am in contact with several university libraries in Germany
- I plan on developing and deploying thin-client solutions for library patrons
- I am currently the Institutional Repository Manager and webmaster of The Library Portal
- Support, training, developing new products
- I work for a statewide consortium of academic and public libraries.
- Technology Support/Development
- consulting, training
- I am fulltime developer for the digital library software used by our digital repository and library
- We are the headquarters of the biggest German library consortium (GBV). We are running the whole technology backend and most of the local ILSes for our members (more than 400 libraries).
- Koha support company
- Work for consortium organization
- education
- I am a PhD. student and also an editor of a LIS journal.
- Counseling and Support
- I am a university lecturer who teaches Library and Information Science.
- I’m a Koha Developer
- I’m lecturer at Librarianship and Information Science
- Work at a State Library
- support libraries of all types (especially publics) at the technology end, providing support, troubleshooting, installing, purchasing consulting, automation advice, etc.
- Provide software and services to support digital collection management
- Very large library cooperative.
- We’re a consortia of public libraries.
- Work at a library system providing cataloging and technical knowledge/support.
- Consultant/systems integrator
- formerly employed as a coder in a research group at UVa. creator of Blacklight, library savvy Solr-arian
- Service agency for public libraries
- Setup KOHA systems, and train them how to use them.
- I provide technical support for libraries
- I work for an agency that provides training, some tech support, and other services for public, academic, school, and special libraries.
- Book and other materials vendor to libraries, as a librarian cataloger.
- System manager for shared propriety ILS. Also manage open source web and mail servers.
- I work for the Colorado State Library as a technical consultant, and Plinkit Coordinator. Plinkit is based on Open Source software (Plone) and used as a product/service to help libraries create and host websites. The state provides this service to public libraries for free.
- Provide training and tech support to libraries of all types
- Via a regional library consortium
- I’m a cataloger for a large book wholesaler. I’m also an MLIS student.
- I do technology training/teaching and program coordination.
- full time faculty at LIS program
While there were only 29 who answered other, 141 people gave answers:
- Consulting
- Special Collections
- Interlibrary Loan
- Research
- All
- Collections
- Technical Services
- Web design, interlibrary loan
- Special & Digital Collections
- marketing
- Branch librarian (little bit of everything)
- trouble shooting and enhancement for ILS and portal and online resource access
- Tech Services (incl. serials, cataloging, etc)
- Instruction
- Information Literacy
- There is only 1 department; my coworker and I share all duties
- digitization, web site…
- Donor Relations
- PR
- Digital library
- Special Collections
- Library Sciences Teacher
- Systems. Same as IT?
- Interlibrary Loan
- Youth Services
- web site
- Outreach Librarian
- Digital Collections, part of the Special Collections division
- Special collections / Archives
- consultant
- Young Adult
- I’m on the web team
- All of the Above…I am the library
- Small library director – I do it all
- all – solo
- Director
- some instruction
- Interlibrary Loan
- Administration
- Web development, Children’s Services, Collection Development
- Adult & Teen services
- R&A
- Public Relations
- Instruction
- Website (this is a different department from IT in my library)
- The library is run by volunteers so I do a bit of everything, but mainly IT and cataloguing.
- R & D
- Instruction
- I work in all departments because my library is very small in a Research Institute
- Digital Collections
- database searching
- instruction
- School Librarian
- Web Content Team
- only 2 of us..we do it all.
- Youth services (really? why don’t you have this as an option….there’s a bunch of us out here)
- Special Collections (manuscripts & Archives)
- Electronic Text Centre
- small library – no such divisions
- I’m the only librarian in our 9-12 public school.
- e-resources
- all
- Manuscripts & Archives
- Administration
- Collection Management
- Electronic Resources
- Virtual Library
- Teaching Information Literacy & Faculty Liaison
- e-resources
- project management
- IT projects
- Instruction
- Instruction
- administration
- all of the above
- Digital Collections
- ILL/Emerging Tech
- Technical Services
- Instruction/Information Literacy
- Electronic Resources, Instruction
- Systems
- Volunteer Library Page
- Digital Preservation
- Systems
- Archives/ Special Collections
- Instruction
- instruction
- systems
- Systems/Electronic Resources
- Archives and Records Management
- Digitization
- instruction
- Tech Support to Staff
- School library
- Special Collections
- archives
- Technical Services
- Instruction and Collection Development
- Digital Initiatives
- Metadata
- I do not work in a library
- Consortia Office
- LIS education
- subject indexing
- youth services
- Teens
- Computer Lab
- Administration
- Computer Lab
- Branch library, mobile library and Children’s/School Library support
- Communications / Marketing
- patron maintenance
- Special Collections
- youth services
- PR
- Teen Services
- Youth Services
- Teen Services
- All of the above
- archives
- Community ICT
- Development advice
- Audiovisual media
- Systems
- Research Assist.
- Digital Information/Preservation
- Systems
- School Media Specialist
- website portal building
- Retired manager
- I do it all!
- Programming
- one person library
- One-Person-Library
- research
- Competitive Intelligence
- One Person Library
- Archives/special collections
- Everything – I’m the only one
- No department, only 2 people
- budget

November 29th, 2009
Nicole
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