Library and archive activities

This group includes activities related to the management, care, preservation and assessment of libraries and archives. This group includes: - documentation and information activities of libraries and archives of all kinds, including reading, listening and viewing rooms, providing library and archive services to the general public or to a specific public (e.g. students, scientists, staff members) - operation of public archives (at governmental, regional or local level) or of private archives (artists’, historians’, writers’ archives, etc.) - organisation of a library collection, whether specialised or not, cataloguing collections - lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art, archives, etc. - retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests, etc.