GRANT FUNDING FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION QUALIFICATIONS
If you are planning to start a new library and information qualification a grant to cover tertiary qualification fees may be available to you.
Grants may be available to help you to undertake tertiary qualifications relevant to public, school, tertiary, national and special libraries, and whānau, iwi and marae collections of taonga tuku iho.
Applications are encouraged from people who are:
In October 2023 priority will be given to applicants who meet one or more of these criteria:
What does the grant cover?
Grants may be available to help you to undertake tertiary qualifications relevant to public, school, tertiary, national and special libraries, and whānau, iwi and marae collections of taonga tuku iho.
Applications are encouraged from people who are:
- new to the library and information sector
- are already working in the library and information sector
- may be starting their first library and information qualification
- may be starting a new higher-level library and information qualification
- can demonstrate they are motivated and determined to help the library and information sector grow and flourish in the future.
In October 2023 priority will be given to applicants who meet one or more of these criteria:
- under thirty-five years
- Māori and Pasifika
- new to the library and information sector
- working in school libraries.
What does the grant cover?
- Grants will provide funding for tertiary fees.
- Consideration will also be given to funding other costs such as childcare, accommodation, travel, technology and research-related costs.

APPLICATION DATES
The next funding round will be October 4-22, 2023.
You do not need to be enrolled prior to applying and you will be supported to enrol with your preferred tertiary provider.
Another funding round will be held in October 2024, for qualifications starting the following year.
You do not need to be enrolled prior to applying and you will be supported to enrol with your preferred tertiary provider.
Another funding round will be held in October 2024, for qualifications starting the following year.
LEARN ABOUT WORKING IN A LIBRARY OR INFORMATION SERVICE
Watch the video to learn more about working in a library and information service.
The work library and information professionals do is varied and depends on the library you may work in. You might be working with children and young people in a school library or finding research and information online in an academic library. Or you may be doing community outreach, promoting reading for pleasure, supporting literacy and helping people gain digital access in a public library.
If your strengths include being digitally savvy, understanding Te Ao Māori, if you have good research and people skills then this interesting line of work may suit you.
Whether you are already working in a library or information service, or you are entirely new to this area, we want more people working in our libraries and information services who are qualified and who represent the communities libraries work with all over Aotearoa.
The work library and information professionals do is varied and depends on the library you may work in. You might be working with children and young people in a school library or finding research and information online in an academic library. Or you may be doing community outreach, promoting reading for pleasure, supporting literacy and helping people gain digital access in a public library.
If your strengths include being digitally savvy, understanding Te Ao Māori, if you have good research and people skills then this interesting line of work may suit you.
Whether you are already working in a library or information service, or you are entirely new to this area, we want more people working in our libraries and information services who are qualified and who represent the communities libraries work with all over Aotearoa.
The video below introduces you to work and qualifications for school library staff.
APPLICATION PROCESSPerpetual Guardian manage the applications for this funding. Go here to register with Perpetual Guardian.
WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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If you get stuck in this process, please contact the friendly staff at Perpetual Guardian: philanthropy@pgtrust.co.nz or phone 09 909 5219.
This funding is made available by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa and School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Te Puna Whare Mātauranga a Kura, through a Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme grant (NZLPP).
The purpose of the tertiary grants funding is to:
This funding is made available by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa and School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Te Puna Whare Mātauranga a Kura, through a Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme grant (NZLPP).
The purpose of the tertiary grants funding is to:
- upskill the current workforce with library and information tertiary qualifications
- attract new people to achieve tertiary qualifications and gain employment in the library and information sector
- ensure the workforce is qualified and future-ready to demonstrate the value and impact of library and information services.