Graduates will be confident, culturally competent, innovative and collaborative leaders and practitioners who enjoy working with people in a dynamic, future-focused discipline that makes a significant contribution to the quality of the lives of New Zealanders.

Career opportunities

The Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Leadership will help you build your critical leadership skills for working in library, archives and records and information management.

If you're working, you'll have valuable opportunities to bring in work-related learning that builds on your current role or prepares you for new responsibilities.

What you will learn

When you achieve this qualification, you will be able to:

• Develop leadership and management strategies to promote ethical and effective evidence-based information solutions within communities and organisations to enable open and equitable access to information
• Lead and innovate in the development and delivery of services, collections, and programmes in the information sector
• Identify and apply solutions to contemporary issues impacting information professionals
• Develop stakeholder and community engagement initiatives to collaborate and engage with Māori and Pasifika and other diverse community groups.

Practical learning activities

As part of Library and Information Service Professional Practice (LIS704) you will do supervised practice learning through a workplace practice of up to 100 hours. This can be done in your current workplace or another suitable Library and Information Services context.