ANZSCO 224611 · STSOL · Skill level 1

Librarian

Develops, organises and manages library services such as collections of information, recreational resources and reader information services. Registration or licensing may be required.

ANZSCO 2013, the edition the department applies to the points tested visas (189, 190 and 491).

Specialisations within it

  • Acquisitions Librarian
  • Audiovisual Librarian
  • Bibliographer
  • Cataloguer
  • Children's Librarian
  • Corporate Librarian
  • Legal Librarian
  • Multicultural Services Librarian
  • Parliamentary Librarian
  • Reference Librarian
  • Special Librarian
  • Special Needs Librarian

Duties

Published for unit group 2246 Librarians

  • developing and implementing library and information policies and services
  • examining publications and materials, interviewing publishers' representatives, and consulting with others to select library materials
  • reviewing, evaluating and modifying services in response to user needs
  • providing assistance to clients in accessing library resources
  • managing library systems for recording and organising library holdings, acquisitions and purchases, reader registrations and loan transactions, and supervising indexing, filing and retrieval activities
  • managing inter-library loan systems and information networks
  • undertaking information research activities on behalf of clients
  • selecting, ordering, classifying and cataloguing library and information resources
  • monitoring collection development and culling programs
  • supervising and training other library staff
  • may plan and direct library promotion and outreach activities
  • Occupation:
  • 224611 Librarian

This is what the occupation is, not what a skills assessment requires. The assessing body applies its own criteria on top of this, and those criteria are not published here. Check them with the body itself.

Who assesses this occupation

VETASSESS
Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services
www.vetassess.com.au

Last confirmed against the department's list on 30 July 2026.

Where Librarian stands right now

Vizard tracks the live queue for this occupation: how many people are waiting at every points score for the 190, 491, the recent invitation round cutoffs, and how far down the queue your own score puts you.

Updated to 1 July 2026, from the department's own SkillSelect data.

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Where this comes from

Definition and duties: Australian Bureau of Statistics, ANZSCO
Assessing authorities and skilled lists: Department of Home Affairs skilled occupation list

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