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Library and Archive Technician
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What this course establishes
- Create and quality-check discoverable item, holding, authority and subject metadata without inventing facts or collapsing distinct entities
- Accession, arrange, describe, rehouse and digitize synthetic collections while preserving provenance, original order, chain of custody and technical metadata
- Provide accessible, privacy-protective reference and circulation service while applying restrictions, rights and emergency escalation through authorized institutional workflows
Entry knowledge
- Careful keyboarding and spreadsheet use
- Basic file and folder management
- Comfort following written procedures while handling materials gently
Scope boundaries
- Uses synthetic patrons, creators, donors, collections, identifiers and files; learners must not expose borrowing/search records, personal data, restricted records, cultural knowledge, credentials, donor data or unlicensed collection images
- Does not authorize appraisal, deaccession, destruction, conservation treatment, mold or hazardous-material handling, legal/copyright decisions, restriction override, cultural-protocol decisions, emergency entry or independent changes to controlled vocabularies and does not replace authorized librarians, archivists, conservators, records officers, counsel, communities or emergency staff
Fastest competency route
Completion is self-paced and competency-based. Prior library or records experience shortens study only when every metadata source, identity, location, provenance, restriction, checksum, rights boundary, accessibility feature and revision is demonstrated; no duration, job, credential, discovery, preservation, copyright or access outcome is guaranteed.
- Pass diagnostics in reference interviews, item/holding/work distinctions, MARC/BIBFRAME concepts, authority control, classification, privacy, accession, provenance, original order, description, restrictions, preservation and digitization
- Complete the synthetic collection-record audit and reproduce every metadata correction, box/folder map, checksum, rights decision route and patron-service response
- Correct every duplicate identifier, title transcription error, creator conflation, wrong language/code, invalid date, shelf-location mismatch, missing restriction, exposed patron record, broken provenance, destructive rearrangement, absent checksum, rights overclaim, harmful description and inaccessible finding aid
Full self-paced route
- Discovery, catalog metadata, classification, circulation and reference
- Accessioning, arrangement, archival description and inclusive access
- Preservation, digitization, rights, privacy and emergency response
- Applied library-and-archive processing portfolio and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Discovery, catalog metadata, classification, circulation, and reference
Create reliable discovery records and provide privacy-protective service from evidence in the resource and approved authority sources.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Accessioning, arrangement, archival description, and inclusive access
Document custody and context, preserve provenance and original order, and create transparent multi-level archival description.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Preservation, digitization, rights, privacy, and emergencies
Protect physical and digital collections and create access copies through documented, safe and rights-aware workflows.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Process and provide access to a fictional hybrid collection
Use only the supplied synthetic records and files. Do not expose patron data, override restrictions, make legal/copyright determinations, alter controlled vocabularies independently, treat damaged/moldy material, destroy records or publish collection images. Institutional policy and authorized librarians, archivists, conservators, counsel, records officers, communities and emergency personnel govern real work.
- Reference/search strategy, source register, corrected bibliographic/authority/holding/location records, classification rationale, duplicate validation, accessible discovery output and privacy-minimized service response
- Accession/custody/condition record, provenance and original-order analysis, hierarchical series/box/folder map, multi-level finding aid, restriction register and inclusive-description revision history
- Preservation survey and authorized handling/rehousing plan, digitization specification, master/derivative/file-structure register, technical metadata, OCR/transcript/accessibility QC and checksum/fixity report
- Copyright/contract/privacy/cultural-access matrix with unresolved decisions routed correctly, emergency tabletop and recovery log, corrected audit ledger and substantive revision
Passing standard: 85 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Library and information science, archival studies, digital preservation, records management, conservation, metadata, public history or information accessibility
- Supervised work in an integrated library system, archival management system, repository and approved collections space
- Institution- or vendor-specific training checked with official providers; this internal course is not an MLS/MLIS, archives, records, conservation or copyright credential