Academic Librarian Job Help!

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I'd like to apply for a job in an academic library. I haven't got an Information management qualification but I do have academic teaching experience. Are there any transferable skills I can use? Does anyone have any advice about how to frame my experience? Are there any short courses I could do to help my expereince and application?

Presumably there’s a job spec? What does it say are the essential criteria? If you don’t meet them, you won’t be appointable.

If it is a Librarian post (rather than a library assistant) you will need a qualification recognised by CILIP.

Transferable skills - what is the role you have in mind? If it is teaching library users information retrieval skills do you have sufficient knowledge of the subject to deliver it effectively? A teaching background will only get you part way.

What do you know about academic librarianship that draws you to it? What skills do you think they have? How does your experience enable you to organise and disseminate information effectively? How does your experience enable you to determine a library user's information needs and identity resources that will provide authoritative data to meet that need?

*identify resources

www.cilip.org.uk/page/AcademicResearchLibrarians

Thanks @Hathertonharidan, the job spec says the professional qualification is desirable rather than essential. I should have said I have a PhD and also in the past worked in an academic library, just as a library assistant.

I am used to finding academic resources for my own research and have helped students extensively when academic subject librarians are unavailable, which was quite frequently.

Strangely enough it does not specify which department it is in, so I can't tie that to my subject knowledge. I do think I will contact the library and ask which subject it is.

Thanks for the link to the CILIP website, I did do some googling but it was not immediately obvious which was the industry standard.

The points you make are a very useful starting point, thank you!