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A information manager already meets 17% of what the library manager role asks for. The move turns on 15 required skills not yet in the profile.
17%
80.2/ 100
1 Share of the library manager role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the information manager profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A library manager role treats 3 of its required skills as things a information manager already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- manage budgets
- manage digital libraries
- recruit employees
What stands in the way is 15 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A library manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a information manager background worth leading with.
- already held manage digital libraries working with computers
- already held assess informational needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use databases working with computers
- already held copyright legislation business, administration and law
- already held recruit employees management skills
- already held manage budgets management skills
All 6 carried skills, including the 3 the library manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 28 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held arrange interlibrary loans required
- required, not held supervise daily library operations required
- required, not held coordinate operational activities required
- required, not held manage staff required
- required, not held supervise work required
- optional, not held apply change management optional
- optional, not held manage fundraising activities optional
- optional, not held manage human resources optional
- required, not held buy new library items required
- required, not held confer with library colleagues required
- required, not held negotiate library contracts required
- required, not held liaise with colleagues required
- required, not held train employees required
- optional, not held participate in school programs on libraries optional
- optional, not held draw up professional texts optional
- required, not held literature required
- required, not held types of literature genres required
- optional, not held music and video industry optional
- required, not held collection management required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
- required, not held provide library information required
- required, not held project management required
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a library manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 arrange interlibrary loans skill · sector specific
- 02 buy new library items skill · sector specific
- 03 collection management knowledge · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 6 skills that carry over
- already held manage budgets skill
- already held manage digital libraries skill
- already held recruit employees skill
- already held assess informational needs skill
- already held copyright legislation knowledge
- already held use databases skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- optional, not held analyse library users' queries optional
- optional, not held apply for library funding optional
- optional, not held classify library materials optional
- optional, not held evaluate library materials optional
- optional, not held manage digital archives optional
- optional, not held organise information optional
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
- optional, not held participate in school programs on libraries optional
- optional, not held analyse library users' queries optional
- optional, not held apply for library funding optional
- optional, not held classify library materials optional
- optional, not held draw up professional texts optional
- optional, not held evaluate library materials optional
- optional, not held manage digital archives optional
- optional, not held apply change management optional
- optional, not held manage fundraising activities optional
- optional, not held manage human resources optional
- optional, not held music and video industry optional
- optional, not held organise information optional
24 held skills the library manager role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role analyse big data skill
- not needed by the target role analyse information systems skill
- not needed by the target role cooperate to resolve information issues skill
- not needed by the target role corporate sustainability knowledge
- not needed by the target role create semantic trees skill
- not needed by the target role data quality assessment knowledge
- not needed by the target role design information system skill
- not needed by the target role develop information standards skill
- not needed by the target role develop organisational information goals skill
- not needed by the target role develop solutions to information issues skill
- not needed by the target role digitise documents skill
- not needed by the target role evaluate project plans skill
- not needed by the target role knowledge base knowledge
- not needed by the target role maintain information network hardware skill
- not needed by the target role manage data skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital documents skill
- not needed by the target role manage digital identity skill
- not needed by the target role manage information access aids skill
- not needed by the target role manage schedule of tasks skill
- not needed by the target role organisational learning knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform customer management skill
- not needed by the target role perform data mining skill
- not needed by the target role supervise daily information operations skill
- not needed by the target role use software for data preservation skill
6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held collection management required
- required, not held project management required
- required, not held literature required
- required, not held types of literature genres required
- optional, not held digital curation optional
- optional, not held music and video industry optional
Other moves recorded from information manager
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.