How to Answer: What do you feel is the most important skill an acquisitions librarian should possess?
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7. What do you feel is the most important skill an acquisitions librarian should possess?
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1. The ability to work under pressure is one important skill. I have experience of this in my latest role when customers come in whilst the phone rings and a queue starts to form.
2. Knowledge of the community.
3. I believe the most important skill is attention to detail and organization skills since you can have many contracts happening at once.
4. Knowledge of the books they need to acquire. Many librarians are given various subjects to purchase books and it's extremely important to know what is available, what is popular, what is current and what is consistently needed for both the open collection/circulating collection as well as the reference section.
5. Acquisitions best practices.