Librarian develops, organises and manages library services such as collections of information, recreational resources and reader information services.
Occupation description
Librarian develops, organises and manages library services such as collections of information, recreational resources and reader information services.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Acquisitions Librarian
- Audiovisual Librarian
- Bibliographer
- Cataloguer
- Children's Librarian
- Corporate Librarian
- Legal Librarian
- Multicultural Services Librarian
- Parliamentary Librarian
- Reference Librarian
- Special Librarian
- Special Needs Librarian
Librarian is a VETASSESS Group A occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher, in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
The information below describes the available pathways for a Skills Assessment under Group A. Please note that in order to achieve a successful Skills Assessment Outcome, a positive assessment for both qualifications and employment is required.
Pathway 1
This pathway requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher degree and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Bachelor degree or higher degree includes AQF Master Degree or AQF Doctoral Degree.
In addition, it is essential for applicants to meet the following employment criteria:
- at least one year of post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level, undertaken in the last five years,
- working 20 hours or more per week, and
- highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
Librarianship is the study of selecting, acquiring, organising and storing collections of information, and facilitating the use of information.
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor Degree or higher degree and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Employment Criteria
Additional tasks may include, but not limited to:
- Developing and implementing library and information policies and services
- Examining publications and materials, interviewing publishers' representatives, and consulting with others to select library materials
- Reviewing, evaluating and modifying services in response to user needs
- Providing assistance to clients in accessing library resources
- Managing library systems for recording and organising library holdings, acquisitions and purchases, reader registrations and loan transactions, and supervising indexing, filing and retrieval activities
- Managing inter-library loan systems and information networks
- Undertaking information research activities on behalf of clients
- Selecting, ordering, classifying and cataloguing library and information resources
- Monitoring collection development and culling programs
- Supervising and training other library staff
- May plan and direct library promotion and outreach activities
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