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Level 6
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20 Credits
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0.1667 EFTS
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Delivery type:Online only
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Course cost:$890 NZ Domestic$2,104 NZ International
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Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
This course introduces students to the management of library and information services, programmes and collections for children and teens in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural and multicultural environment.
Children and teens are a very significant group of library users, with distinct needs. Libraries and information services play a pivotal role for this user group in providing access to information, developing information access skills and stimulating reading. School libraries and children’s and teens’ library services can have a major positive impact on student achievement and learning. Librarians need to be equipped with particular skills to cope with special collections and needs of children and young people. This course provides students with the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge and skills essential for the understanding and management of library and information services for children and teens.
For more information watch the course introduction video below.
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
- Explain the features of current library and information services for children and teens, and discuss issues, research and trends in public libraries and schools, in New Zealand and overseas, and how these might affect the services for this user group.
- Plan and manage collections and services targeted at children and teens.
- Describe and apply ethical management and use of information, equity of information access, freedom of information, privacy, cultural knowledge, and copyright, in New Zealand’s bicultural and multicultural environment, to the provision of library and information services for children and teens.
- Evaluate the ways in which library and information services respond to and connect children and teen information and literacy seeking requirements with collections and services.
Assessment
This course is 100% internally assessed.
Textbooks
No textbooks are required for this course.
Computer and internet requirements
This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.
For online learning you need:
- Access to a laptop or desktop computer
- Reliable broadband internet and a data plan
Find out more about online learning
If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.