ISIC 911—Library and archive activities

Where 911 sits

1. S Arts, sports and recreation
2. 91 Library, archives, museum and other cultural activities
3. 911 Library and archive activities

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 9111 Library activities
• 9112 Archive activities

What 911 includes

• This group includes all activities related to management, care, preservation, appraisal 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, etc.
• Operation of public archives (at governmental, regional or local levels) 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.

911 in other systems