Library Technology Certificate
Three Rivers Community College
Spring 2017
Nationally Accredited by the American Library Association ALA-LSSC
Are you a Library director or manager who wants to enable your support staff to improve their skills, knowledge, and abilities? Steer them toward Three Rivers - and watch as they bring new energy and ideas back to your library.
Are you a current library support staff member who wants to increase your library skills?
The newly redesigned Three Rivers Library Support Staff Certificate may be just what you are looking for. If you ready for more responsibility, more knowledge, more respect, and more opportunities to advance than this is the program for you!
Are you a Library volunteer, college student, or library friend or lover interested in moving into a paid library position? Check out the newly redesigned, convenient Three Rivers Library Support Staff Certificate that will give you the technical skills and resume boost you need to turn your passion into a career.
This newly revised, fully online accredited program is for anyone who currently works in a library or is interested in a career in libraries. We offer:
LIB K127 – Management Strategies, Communication, and Teamwork (3 credits) ONLINE
This course covers the basic supervisory skills that are necessary for library technical assistants. Topics included are job descriptions, employee evaluation, motivation, conflict management, interpersonal communication, time management, teamwork, project management, training techniques, affirmative action, censorship, and fiscal management.
LIB K125 – Digital Media (3 credits) ONLINE
Students will explore the way that libraries are using digital media to promote and deliver information literacy. The evolution of technology from analog to digital will be explored and the effect of copyright laws on all these technologies. Above all, the exploration of technologies includes creation of media. Students will learn to create digital video, audio and presentation files using a variety of applications and software.
LIB K202 – Field Placement (90-hr. Internship at a Library Placement) (3 credits)
This course is a work assignment under actual library conditions that gives students practical experience related to their learning goals. During the semester, students will work 90 hours in a library under the direction of a site supervisor with the support of the faculty advisor. This course is required for students with no practical library experience.
Application and Registration:
Because the Library Technology program is fully online, students do not need to come to campus. Apply and register as a distance learning student using the Three Rivers Community College Combined Application and Registration Form for Library Technology Certificate. The link can be found at:
Full program information can be found at Connecticut Library Consortium at http://www.ctlibrarians.org/?3rivers
Three Rivers website under Academic Programs: http://catalog.threerivers.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=2&poid=161&returnto=59
Contact: Marie C. Shaw, Ed. D.
Program Coordinator, Library Technology Certificate
Three Rivers Community College
860-449-4411 or 860-215-9520