Library Technician assists Librarians and other information managers in organising and operating systems for handling recorded material and files.
Occupation description
Library Technician assists Librarians and other information managers in organising and operating systems for handling recorded material and files.
Library Technician is a VETASSESS Group C occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma or higher.
Applicants can fulfil the assessment criteria for this occupation in four different ways.
*If employment is prior to the completion of the qualification at the required level, an applicant must have at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years. The remaining three years of pre-qualifying period may be within the last ten years.
A positive assessment of both qualification level and employment duration is required for a positive Skills Assessment outcome.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
Librarianship is the study of selecting, acquiring, organising and storing library resources, and facilitating the retrieval and dissemination of information.
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the education level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma or higher and in a field highly relevant to the nominated occupation.
Employment Criteria
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Ordering new library materials and maintaining library records and circulation systems
- Cataloguing printed and recorded material
- Entering data into databases and editing computer records
- Operating audiovisual and reprographic equipment
- Searching and verifying bibliographic data
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