This certificate program prepares students for employment in the dynamic field of library and information services. The skills learned in this program may be used in public, school, academic, and special and corporate libraries, as well as in archives or other jobs or businesses requiring information management skills. If you like working with people, books and information, consider a career in library technology.

To earn a certificate of achievement, students must complete each course used to meet a certificate requirement with a “C” grade or higher and maintain an overall GPA of 2.5. With department chairperson’s approval, other course substitutions are possible for use in completing the program.

课程学习成果

Students completing this program will be able to

- Explain library fundamental principles including intellectual freedom, open access, diversity, and patron privacy and confidentiality.

- Apply knowledge and skills gained through the coursework to perform library technician-level tasks.

- Describe the characteristics of libraries and the roles of libraries in a diverse, multicultural, and democratic society, and how these needs can be met.

- Apply the basic principles and standardized systems of ordering, cataloging, classifying, processing, and maintaining library mat4erials and resources.

- Demonstrate the workplace communication skills necessary to successfully interact with users and staff in the library and other information services.

- Identify and use the technologies found in the library another information services.

- Analyze information critically to draw conclusions and/ or solve problems when working with patrons, materials, and technology.

工作机会

- The skills learned in this program may be used in public, school, academic, and corporate libraries, as well as in other jobs or businesses requiring information management skills.