Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Eighteen of Sixty-six

    GS-1400 - LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES GROUP   

This group includes all classes of positions the duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional and scientific work or subordinate technical work in the various phases of library and archival science.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Series in this group are:

GS-1410 --Librarian Series*

This series includes all positions involving work that primarily requires a full professional knowledge of the theories, objectives, principles, and techniques of librarianship. An inherent requirement of these positions is a knowledge of literature resources. Some positions also require a substantial knowledge of the subject matter involved and/or a substantial knowledge of foreign languages. Such work is concerned with the collection, organization, preservation, and retrieval of recorded knowledge in printed, written, audiovisual, film, wax, near-print methods, magnetic tape, or other media. Typical library functions include the selection, acquisition, cataloging, and classification of materials, bibliographic and readers' advisory services, reference and literature searching services, library management and systems planning, or the development and strengthening of library services.

GS-1411 - Library Technician Series*

This series includes all positions that primarily require a practical knowledge of the methods and techniques of library or related information work in acquiring, organizing, preserving, accessing, and/or disseminating information. Library technicians provide technical support by performing a wide variety of tasks providing direct services to the public and indirect technical services such as materials acquisition, copy cataloging, support of automated systems, or other similar work in support of library or related information programs and operations. The work requires a practical knowledge of library or related information services, tools, and methods and procedures.

GS-1412 - Technical Information Services Series*

This series includes positions that are primarily concerned with the direction, administration, development, coordination, or performance of work involved in processing and transmitting scientific, technological, or other specialized information. Duties performed require a broad knowledge of one or more professional, scientific, or technical disciplines or fields of interest sufficient to understand the significance and relationship of the concepts and ideas contained in the information; a practical knowledge of documentation or library techniques; and, in some cases, a knowledge of foreign languages.

GS-1420 - Archivist Series*

This series includes positions that involve professional archival work in appraising, accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving, publishing, or providing reference service from public records and historic documents. This work requires a professional knowledge of archival principles and techniques, a comprehensive knowledge of the history of the United States and the institutions and organizations of the Federal Government, and a thorough understanding of the needs, methods, and techniques of scholarly research.

GS-1421 - Archives Technician Series*

This series includes positions that involve nonprofessional and technical work in accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving, using, and disposing of archives, noncurrent records, and related material kept in record and manuscript depositories. This work requires the application of a practical or technical knowledge of archival methods, procedures, and techniques, and in some assignments a knowledge of the administrative history of specific Federal organizations, past or present. The work does not require full professional preparation in archival science, or the application of a full professional knowledge of the history of the United States.

GS-1499 - Library and Archives Student Trainee Series

See the series definition for the General Student Trainee Series, GS-0099.