14300 Library assistants and clerks

What this occupation covers

Library assistants and clerks issue and receive library materials, sort and shelve books and provide general library information to users. They also perform clerical functions. Library clerks are employed by libraries or other establishments with library services.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 5 main duties for this code.

• Issue and receive library books and other materials
• Sort and reshelve books and other library materials
• Perform clerical activities such as manual and electronic filing and record payments received
• Maintain journal subscriptions
• Assist library users in accessing library materials and online resources, and in making interlibrary loans.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 5 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 51100 Librarians
• 52100 Library and public archive technicians
• 12012 Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers

Excluded from this code

• Librarians (See 51100 Librarians)
• Library technician (See 52100 Library and public archive technicians)
• Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers (See 12012 Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

art department library clerk · book returns clerk - library · bookmobile clerk · Braille and talking books library clerk · branch library clerk · circulation assistant · circulation clerk - library · films and recordings library clerk · interlibrary loan clerk · library aide · library assistant · library clerk · library filer · library page · music library assistant · on call library assistant · periodicals clerk · periodicals clerk - library · photograph filer - library · record library assistant · recordings library clerk · reference aide - library · reference assistant - library · reference clerk

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.