2022 Edition

national industry 519210

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 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 These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest.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 519210 is international industry 51921: Libraries and Archives

2022 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Providing stock film and video 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 519290, Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services; and
  • Acquiring distribution rights and distributing motion pictures and videos to motion picture theaters, television networks and stations, other media broadcast and streaming outlets, and exhibitors--are classified in Industry 512120, Motion Picture and Video Distribution.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 519210 - Archives
  2. 519210 - Bookmobiles
  3. 519210 - Centers for documentation (i.e., archives)
  4. 519210 - Circulating libraries
  5. 519210 - Film archives
  6. 519210 - Lending libraries
  7. 519210 - Libraries (except motion picture stock footage, motion picture commercial distribution)
  8. 519210 - Motion picture film libraries, archives
  9. 519210 - Music archives
  10. 519210 - 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

  1. 8231 - Libraries

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 519210, Libraries and Archives:

  1. clerical office employee not otherwise classified or computer system designer or programmer exclusively office or drafting employee or public library or museum
  2. information
  3. library
  4. library and archive
  5. library private
  6. library private librarian or professional assistant
  7. library public
  8. library public librarian or professional assistant
  9. library with book mobile
  10. library without book mobile
  11. museum or public library
  12. other information service
  13. public library
  14. public library or museum
  15. public library or museum other employee

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