How to become a librarian or related information professional
Official title: Librarians and related information professionals
Also called: Bibliographer, Cataloguer, Librarian
Librarians and related information professionals collect, select, develop, organize and maintain library collections and other information repositories; organize and control other library services and provide information for users.
Main tasks
- Organizing, developing and maintaining a systematic collection of books, periodicals and other printed, audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Selecting and recommending acquisitions of books and other printed or audiovisually and digitally recorded material
- Organizing, classifying and cataloguing library material
- Managing library borrowing and interlibrary loan facilities and information networks
- Retrieving material and providing information to business and other users based on the collection itself or on library and information-network systems
- Conducting research and analysing or modifying library and information services in accordance with changes in users’ needs
- Devising and implementing schemes and conceptual models for the storage, organization, classification and retrieval of information
- Preparing scholarly papers and reports
- Performing manual, online and interactive media reference searches, making interlibrary loans and performing other functions to assist users in accessing library materials
Ways in
- University: Arts & Humanities degrees, Offered by 21 universities in Hong Kong
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: HK$48,000 a month
- About 1,542,900 people in 2025, and about 1,639,100 projected by 2028. (+6.2%)
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a librarian or related information professional?
Ways in include: Arts & Humanities degrees.
Do you need a degree to become a librarian or related information professional?
Usually. 85% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Will AI change the work of a librarian or related information professional?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026