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Australian prison libraries: minimum standard guidelines5. Human resources5.1 Prison library services within each jurisdiction shall be the responsibility of an experienced graduate librarian eligible for professional membership of the ALIA. 5.2 Each library shall be supervised by a qualified librarian, full-time or part-time depending on the size of library. The role of this librarian will be - apart from supervision - to train, advise, and provide professional services such as selection, cataloguing, advanced bibliographical searching, and training in library skills. 5.3 In the absence of the qualified librarian, each library shall be supervised by a person trained in library procedures. This may be a prison officer or other member of staff (e.g. an education officer), an inmate or some other person. 5.4 Selection of staff for prison libraries shall be by the Library Services Manager in consultation with senior prison authorities. Factors taken into account will include aptitude, experience, reliability, personality and the length of time for which candidates might be available to do this work. 5.5 Training shall be for a minimum of ten days, preferably both on-site and in another larger library, subject to security considerations when the trainee is an inmate. The training curriculum shall be in essence that outlined in Prison Libraries: Library Association Guidelines, Appendix IV, (Appendix I of this document). 5.6 Officer or inmate library assistants may be expected to carry out duties such as the following:
5.7 The number of hours per week spent by staff in each library will vary not only according to the size of library and opening hours but also according to the extent to which functions (such as cataloguing) are carried out elsewhere, e.g. in a Head Office library. The following are recommended:
Staffing requirements shall be systematically reviewed to ensure that a proper level of service is maintained.
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