Course overview

Establish your career in library services with this high-level course. Develop the specialized skills and knowledge needed to work as a library technician in public, special, school, and academic libraries. 

Employers are looking for qualified candidates who are efficient, can communicate clearly, and interact well with others. 

This program is accredited by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and will help you launch your career. You will learn how to help people research and analyses information in a professional environment, catalogue and classify material, maintain digital repositories, and implement workplace health, safety and security procedures. You will also use, evaluate and extend your own information literacy skills. Our highly-experienced team of industry professionals will give you the tools you need to get ahead.

Successful completion of this course will qualify you to become a library technician in a diverse range of settings. You will also have a solid foundation to continue with further study.

What can I do?

Library Technician

Museum Coordinator/Technician

Special Collections Officer

Metadata Officer

Digital Services Officer

Information Services Officer

Gallery Technician

Collection Development Officer

Access Services Officer

What you will study

The successful achievement of this qualification requires you to complete all core and 12 elective units from the list below. 

Core units:

UNIT NAME

Consolidate and maintain library industry knowledge

Monitor compliance with copyright and license requirements

Extend own information literacy skills to locate information

Identify and resolve client ICT problems

Elective units:

UNIT NAME

Make presentations

Obtain information from external and networked sources

Search library and information databases

Coordinate data management

Maintain digital repositories

Use advanced functions of integrated library management systems

Research and analyses information to meet library customer needs

Promote literature and reading

Develop community and stakeholder relationships in a library environment

Develop and promote library activities, events and public programs

Undertake cataloguing activities

Promote workplace cyber security awareness and best practices.