Variant of NAICS 2002 - Goods and Services

5191 - Other Information Services

This industry group comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing other information services. The main components are news syndicates, libraries and archives, and other information search services on a contract basis.

51911 - News Syndicates

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying information, such as news reports, articles, pictures and features to the news media.

• Exclusion(s):

  • independent correspondents and free-lance news journalists (See 71151 Independent Artists, Writers and Performers)

51912 - Libraries and Archives

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing library or archive services. These establishments maintain collections of documents (such as books, journals, newspapers and music) and facilitate the use of such documents (regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as are required to meet the informational, research, educational or recreational needs of their users. They may also acquire, research, store, and make accessible to the public, original historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audio-visual material and other archival materials of historical interest. Cinematheques, videotheques and other film and video archives, whose primary purpose is the preservation of archival audio-visual material, are included. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • providing motion picture and video stock footage (via libraries) to producers, the media, multimedia and advertising industries (See 51219 Post-Production and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries)

51919 - All Other Information Services

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in providing information services, including telephone-based information recordings and information search services on a contract basis.