national industry 519120
Libraries and Archives
Overview
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing library or archive services. These establishments are engaged in maintaining collections of documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, and music) and facilitating the use of such documents (recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as are required to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of their user. These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.
The immediate parent of national industry 519120 is international industry 51912: Libraries and Archives
2012 NAICS Edition Cross References
- Establishments primarily engaged in:
- Providing stock footage (via motion picture and video tape libraries) to the media, multimedia, and advertising industries:are classified in U.S. Industry 512199, Other Motion Picture and Video Industries;
- Providing stock music to the media, multimedia, and advertising industries:are classified in Industry 512290, Other Sound Recording Industries;
- Providing stock photos to the media, multimedia, and advertising industries:are classified in Industry 519190, All Other Information Services; and
- Distributing film and video productions to motion picture theaters, television networks and stations, and exhibitors:are classified in Industry 512120, Motion Picture and Video Distribution.
Sub-Descriptions
- 519120 - Archives
- 519120 - Bookmobiles
- 519120 - Centers for documentation (i.e., archives)
- 519120 - Circulating libraries
- 519120 - Film archives
- 519120 - Lending libraries
- 519120 - Libraries (except motion picture stock footage, motion picture commercial distribution)
- 519120 - Motion picture film libraries, archives
- 519120 - Music archives
- 519120 - Reference libraries
History
The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.
| Edition | Existed | Equivalent Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 519120 | |
| 2007 | 519120 | |
| 2012 | 519120 | |
| 2017 | 519120 | |
| 2022 | 519210 |
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings
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