CILIP offers its Seal of Recognition to bodies offering training and development. To see the organizations that have been awarded the Seal click here.

While some of the following courses are best suited to library assistants they may prove useful at any stage of your career and contribute towards the portfolios needed for CILIP's own professional awards:
Certification , Chartership and Revalidation .

British Computer Society
European Computer Driving Licence
Tel: 01793 417530 email: qualifications@hq.bcs.org.uk web:www.bcs.org.uk/qualifications  

CILIP
Certification is a portfolio based qualification recognizing learning, training and experience which also offers a route to Chartership. Tel: 020 7255 0610 email: quals@cilip.org.uk

CILIP Training and development
Short courses for all levels of library work including assistant roles.
Tel: 020 7255 0560 email: training@cilip.org.uk 
 
The City & Guilds of London Institute
For all information on NVQs (scheme number 7372) and C&G Certificates (scheme number 7371) please contact City and Guilds directly:Tel: +44 (0)20 7294 2800; email: enquiry@city-and-guilds.co.uk. Their web address is www.city-and-guilds.co.uk. To find out more about NVQs and the City and Guilds Certificates you can also view the Lifelong Learning UK website.

Open University
TU120 Beyond Google: an online course that runs over 10 weeks.
0845 300 60 90
www.openuniversity.co.uk/tu120
general-enquiries@open.ac.uk

Scottish Qualifications Authority
Applications of ICT in libraries
www.ictl.org.uk/

For more details contact the SQA directly. Tel: 0845 279 1000 Fax: 0845 213 5000
email customer@sqa.org.uk web: www.sqa.org.uk

Updated: 18 May 2009