[Genealib] Genealogy Librarian Job Descriptions

[Dana Lucisano]

Thank you to all who have responded thus far to my inquiry about how you spend your time when you wear the hat called "Genealogy Librarian" at the institutions where you work.  A few people who responded to me off-line wondered why I wanted this information.  The Director of my library is thinking about sponsoring me for training I would need in order to do preservation and, possibly, archiving.  He asked me to find out what my counterparts at other libraries do, which is why I needed your help.  From the responses that have come in thus far, it is clear that we spend most of our time (40 to 60%) responding to patron inquiries.  After that, the next thing we tend to have in common is reponsibility for preparation of finding aids (about 10 to 15% of our time).  One person said that 55% of her time is spent in preservation because she is the library's digitization specialist.  Another person said that her library has a lot of volunteer participation and that she spends 5 to 10% of her time training volunteers.  Planning seems to be a low priority for many of us.  What about programming?  So far, no one has mentioned that.
 
Dana Lucisano
Genealogy and Local History Librarian
Silas Bronson Library
267 Grand St.
Waterbury, CT 06702
 
(203) 574-8225
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