NIC 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.
• 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