What does a librarian do?

Question

What does a librarian do?

Answer 1

What do you want tonight? Read a book? Watch a movie? Print something from the internet? Curious about when McDonalds or Burger King started? How's the life in the 60s, or 70s, or 80s? Who is George Washington Carver? How far is from Main St to ...? What's the phone number of ? I need a report on... And many many more...

Answer 2

is this a trick question?

um, otherwise a librarian takes control over a...um, library and all that stuff...blah blah blah, organizes books, helps checkout, blah,blah,blah...

Answer 3

As I just found out, they help spread DRM in Public Libraries

Help us stop them!!

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Answer 4

What don't they do?!  Librarians...um...well they uh...sometimes they sort of....oh heck, here is a link with all sorts of information about librarians.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian

Answer 5

It depends upon the type of library.  I used to be in a K-8 school library.  I did multiple things every day.  I would read stories to students, teach research skills, meet with teachers to plan how to best study a subject, plan budgets, repair books, catalog and process materials, checked books in and out.

I'm now in a public library. Today I was on TV to promote the library, designed websites, conducted book clubs, gave school groups tours of the library, read stories to children, helped a senior citizen find information on the Eastern European country that his family came from, trouble shot computer problems, did book repairs, prepared for the Anime-Manga club, and checked books in and out.

If I worked in a medical or law library my duties would vary.

Answer 6

over see the library and the staff, budget, order books, boring if you ask me.  But then I can't be quite long enough to do that job!