Library and Information Services Professional Practice

You will follow an individual plan of development within a framework of options that will include, but not be limited to, workplace placements.

The professional practice topics chosen will be directly relevant to your workplace or planned sector of employment. You will engage with professional practice in workplace settings beyond your current role, interacting with library and information service professionals, to extend your understanding and skill-base. You will demonstrate that you can apply communication skills, professional values and ethics, and practice skills to your work.

During the course, you will use reflection techniques and practice supervision to articulate and critically reflect on your application of practice skills.

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• Read the course handbook.
• Determine what you will do for your professional practice.
• Contact the course leader (see course handbook).

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Analyse their need for development in practice skills and develop a plan to achieve these in a relevant library and information service context.
• Operate professionally with library and information service practitioners and library and information service work.
• Apply practice skills within workplace settings.
• Evaluate performance and professional interactions with others in a relevant library and information service context.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access your course material and submit assessments online. Our online courses may include reading, videos, quizzes or activities, and you may need to download content.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable internet and data plan.  

If you are unsure if your current computer, Windows or internet access will allow you to study online, please contact us before applying to enrol. 

Find out more about online learning 

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• choose the qualification you will study the course under
• check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.