Trained library professionals can find considerable opportunity for employment as well as job satisfaction in areas that include:

· Government public library services
· Government departmental libraries
· Universities and other academic institutions
· National archives
· Cultural and educational institutions
· Private collections and special libraries (with appropriate specialization)
· Information centers
· Photo/film libraries (with appropriate specialization)
· Companies and organizations with large information handling requirements.
· Museums and galleries, which usually have reading rooms and research facilities, attached.

DIVERSIFICATION

Library professionals can diversify into:

· Research in academic librarianship
· Teaching library and information science
· Information brokerage services
· Information officer positions in professional libraries
· Information management
· Archival work
· Information technology in scientific research institutions

Non-library diversifications include:

· Systems analysis
· Research assistance
· Database operation and management
· Printing and publishing
· Subject specialization
· Extension officer's posts
· Editorial work
· Documentation
· Information transfer work
· Corporate or freelance consultancy
· Self employment-offering classification and cataloguing services
· Information marketing
· Bibliography
· Organization and management of information units