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Librarian

Job Description

At NIH, librarians primarily work within the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library. NLM contains materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. Librarians perform collection development, acquisition, cataloging and classification, reference, circulation, computer system and database management, and preservation. NIH librarians are involved in cutting-edge developments in information and audiovisual technologies to improve the organization, dissemination, and utilization of biomedical information, including searchable medical databases and databases for biotechnology, human genome data, and toxicology and environmental health. Librarian positions require professional knowledge of the theories, objectives, principles, and techniques of librarianship; standard reference tools and established techniques and practices, such as classification systems (e.g., Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal); cataloging; and search strategies.

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