Librarians develop, organise, and manage library services such as collections of information, recreational resources, and reader information services.

Skill Level

1

Specialisations

• 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

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Librarian is Vocational & Education Training Assessment (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• Qualification assessed at Australian Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field of study AND at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years
• Applicants must meet both the qualification and employment requirements to obtain a positive skills assessment

Develop, organise and manage library services such as collections of information, recreational resources and reader information services.
Teacher-Librarians are excluded from this unit group. Teacher-Librarians are included in Minor Group 241 School Teachers.

Tasks

• 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

Skill Level

In Australia and New Zealand:

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1). In some instances, relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification. This occupation may require registration or licensing.

Occupations in this Group

• 224611 Librarian