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Library Technician Profile

Library Technicians are highly trained in library procedures, enabling a graduate Library Technician to provide support and assistance to Librarians in any type of library:  Government, Public, Academic, School and Special.

They perform duties requiring special skills and techniques such as:

  • descriptive cataloging, classification, coding and processing of print and audio-visual material
  • interlibrary loans
  • reader and public service functions including circulation, fiction services, storytelling, children's and young adult materials
  • reference services including use of all major dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, indexes, handbooks, directories, and year books
  • bibliography searching
  • operation of audio-visual equipment
  • production of instructional materials and maintenance of files
  • public relations, including planning and implementing visual displays and programs
  • management, including supervision of staff and volunteers
  • well trained in written and oral communication
  • library automation applications, including acquisitions
  • cd-rom media and on-line database searching
Future employers, please hire a correctly trained Library Technician.  It will save you money and remember that highly skilled Library Technicians will get the job done.  Make a Library Technician a part of your library staff

Please contact SALT or the SIAST Library & Information Technology Program in regard to any available position which is suitable for a graduate Library Technician in Saskatchewan.
 

To view more Library Technician Profiles choose one of the links below.  If you would like to submit a library technician profile or the URL of one you know, please send it to our e-mail address.
 
 

Sample LT Profile
CLA LT Profile
Saskatoon Public School Division LT Profile