ALIA submission in response to the draft legislation to implement the Australian Government’s Job-ready Graduates Package, August 2020

ALIA Library

Creator
Australian Library and Information Association
Description

This submission from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) discusses the role of library and information professionals in supporting formal education and lifelong learning through school, TAFE, university, public and special libraries. In order to run these institutions and provide these services, we need tertiary qualified library and information professionals.
 
Under the government's draft legislation, teacher librarianship units of study will be funded in line with teacher education units of study in the proposed new model. However, ALIA is advocating for all library and information science courses to be reassigned from Cluster 1 to Cluster 2, alongside IT and education, given our professions’ close alignment.

 

Publisher
Deakin, ACT: Australian Library and Information Association
Date
2020
Type
Format
Language
en
Coverage
Australia