Certificate in Librarianship

Type: Credit-based

Offered by:  Faculty of Management

Coordinator:

Sandra Toze
Suite 4010, Rowe Management Building
6100 University Ave
Sandra.Toze@dal.ca
902-494-2488

Overview:

The Certificate in Librarianship will recognize the particular knowledge, behaviours, skills, competencies and attitudes considered critical to success within the Library sector. The Librarianship Certificate aims to help students explore the theories, principles, and practices of modern librarianship. The foundations of modern librarianship rest on essential core values that reflect the history and ongoing developments in the practice. This certificate will prepare students with the application of standards, and bibliographic classification systems, while examining trends and future directions of relevant theories of learning and a consideration of how these approaches may be effectively managed for to engage communities. This certificate is reflective of a range of library settings including academic libraries, public libraries and special libraries.

Admission Requirements / Eligibility:

MI certificates are limited to students enrolled in the Master of Information (MI) program at Dalhousie University.

During their degree, MI students can choose to complete up to two certificates.

Certificate Requirements:

The certificate requires completion of 9 credit hours.

Generally, if an elective course is included in one certificate, it cannot be counted towards another. This policy does not apply to INFO 6500, which can be double counted towards two certificates: the Certificate in Librarianship and the Certificate Librarianship – Youth and Children’s Services.

The electives within the certificates will count toward both the certificate and the degree.

In order to satisfy the requirements of this certificate, students must complete 3 of the following options:

• INFO 6330.03 Cataloguing and Classification
• INFO 6500.03 Community-Led Services
• INFO 6560.03 Information Resources Management
• INFO 6810.03 Managing Information Literacy Instruction
• INFO 6320.03 Legal Literature and Librarianship or INFO 6750.03 Health Sciences Literature and Information Sources

Note that INFO 6330 requires that students have successfully completed the required course INFO 5515 Organization of Information, and that INFO 6500 requires that students have successfully completed the required course INFO 5530 Information Sources, Services and Retrieval. These required courses are both offered in the Fall semester annually.

Students may take either INFO 6320 or INFO 6750 to count towards this certificate; if both are taken as part of the their degree, only 1 may be counted towards this certificate.

Application of Credit Hours Towards Other Degree Requirements:

Courses completed as part of this certificate may be double-counted towards the requirements of a concurrent degree, subject to approval by the student’s supervisor and graduate coordinator in their primary degree program. Courses not approved to count towards the primary degree requirements will result in additional tuition fees on a per-course fee basis.