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Librarian. They love their time on the reference desk. Their main work is in discovery services.
What are the discovery services?
They have access to a bunch of digital content. However it can be hard to find what you are looking for or even know what databases and other services are available.
Discovery services try to make that more available to end users. Kind of like a index of all the digital content the library has available.
Oh, that's cool!