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.
In 2022 and 2023, a fund was created to enable people to gain a new library and information qualification. The grant covered tertiary qualification fees and associated costs.
Three funding rounds over 2022 and 2023 provided grants to over 130 students to complete library and information qualifications. With 97 applications received in the October 2023 round of funding, 54 applications were successful. Over 50% of the grant recipients in this funding round are already working in or expected to work in school libraries.
The total NZLPP-funded amount of $ 1.5 million has now been allocated, and no more funding rounds will be held.
Students will complete undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications at Open Polytechnic Te Pūkenga, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. The final group of successful applicants are expected to complete their studies in 2028.
Of the grant recipients across all three rounds, around 25% are new to the library and information sector, and around 25% identify as Māori or Pasifika.
Three funding rounds over 2022 and 2023 provided grants to over 130 students to complete library and information qualifications. With 97 applications received in the October 2023 round of funding, 54 applications were successful. Over 50% of the grant recipients in this funding round are already working in or expected to work in school libraries.
The total NZLPP-funded amount of $ 1.5 million has now been allocated, and no more funding rounds will be held.
Students will complete undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications at Open Polytechnic Te Pūkenga, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. The final group of successful applicants are expected to complete their studies in 2028.
Of the grant recipients across all three rounds, around 25% are new to the library and information sector, and around 25% identify as Māori or Pasifika.
This funding was 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:
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.