National Occupational Standards

Information and Library Services NOS

There are 16 competences for this area.

1. IL2/2 - Identify and provide information and material required by users

Summary
This workforce competence is about identifying and providing information and material required by users.

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2. IL3/1 - Provide information and material to users

Summary
This workforce competence is about providing information and material to users.

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3. IL3/2 - Identify information and material required by users and its availability

Summary
This workforce competence is about identifying and providing information and material required by users and its availability.

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4. IL3/5 - Organise information and material

Summary
This workforce competence is about organising information and material.

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5. IL3/6 - Index information

Summary
This workforce competence is about indexing information.

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6. IL4/1 - Identify a strategy to meet a users complex information needs

Summary
This workforce competence is about identifying a strategy to meet a users complex information needs.

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7. IL4/2 - Determine the requirements for information and material

Summary
This workforce competence is about determining requirements for information and material.

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8. IL4/5 - Educate users to make best use of the service

Summary
This workforce competence is for you, if, as part of your job, you help users by educating them in the use of your organisation’s services. This includes, for example: teaching users how to use the service to identify sources for a project, or for secondary research (e.g. identifying references they have found in other sources, or preparing a search list of potentially useful references).

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9. IL4/10 - Investigate the use of information and library services

Summary
This workforce competence is about investigating the use of information and library services.

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10. IL4/13 - Abstract information

Summary
This workforce competence is about abstracting information.

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11. R2/1 - Provide authorised access to records

Summary
This workforce competence is about providing authorised access to records.

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12. R2/2 - Protect records

Summary
This workforce competence is about protecting physical records.

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13. R2/3 - Maintain the arrangements of records

Summary
This workforce competence is about maintaining the arrangement of records and/or files.

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14. R3/2 - Maintain and develop records classification system

Summary
This workforce competence is about maintaining and developing records classification systems.

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15. R3/5 - Administer the current records system

Summary
This workforce competence is about administering the current records system.

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16. R4/9 - Discover and organise information

Summary
This workforce competence is about discovering and organising information.

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