Mediator

Archetype 7 Mediator

Mediators should be capable of:

  • Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Innovator

Archetype 5 Innovator

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

  • Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
  • Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
  • Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Other work activities related to Librarians

  • Searching standard reference materials, including online sources and the Internet, for answering patrons’ reference questions.
  • Analyzing patrons’ requests for determining needed information and assisting in furnishing or locating that information.
  • Checking books in and out of the library.
  • Explaining using of library facilities, resources, equipment, and services and providing information about library policies.
  • Coding, classifying, and cataloguing books, publications, films, audio visual aids, and other library materials based on subject matter or standard library classification systems.
  • Locating unusual or unique information in response to specific requests.
  • Directing and training library staff in duties, such as receiving, shelving, researching, cataloging, and equipment using.
  • Responding to customer complaints, taking action as necessary.
  • Organizing collections of books, publications, documents, audio visual aids, and other reference materials for convenient access.
  • Developing library policies and procedures.