NOC 52100: Library and public archive technicians

Library and public archive technicians assist users in accessing library or archive resources, assist in describing new acquisitions, participate in archive processing and storage, and conduct reference searches. They are employed by libraries and public archives.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): yes, TEER 2.
• Canadian Experience Class: counts as skilled Canadian work (1 year in the last 3 years).
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: counts as skilled work (1 year of continuous work in the last 10 years).
• Federal Skilled Trades Program: not one of the eligible trades.
• High-wage occupation (from November 3, 2026): no. No high-wage add-on, and a job offer in it earns no CRS points.

TEER 2: Occupations that usually need a college diploma, an apprenticeship of 2 or more years, or supervisory duties. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 52100 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws.

Category lists checked on canada.ca on 2026-10-17. IRCC category-based selection

CRS points for work in NOC 52100

Skilled Canadian work in this occupation earns the standard points, the same before and after November 3, 2026, with no high-wage add-on:

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Library technicians
• Assist library users in accessing books, films, photographs, maps, documents, electronic materials and other library materials
• Catalogue new library acquisitions under the direction of a librarian
• Perform manual and on-line reference searches and make interlibrary loans for users
• Assist librarians in giving tours and providing children's and other specialized library programs.
• Public archive technicians
• Assist in developing inventories, forms and finding aids
• Implement and update classification plans and records scheduling and disposal plans
• Apply standards and policies for storage of records and archival materials
• Codify and classify archival materials
• Put archival materials on microfilm or in databases
• Transfer materials from current to semi-current status or put into permanent storage
• Purge, sort, reduce and sample archives
• Research and retrieve archival materials
• Participate in instructing and assisting users
• Ensure that proper procedures are followed in the use of computerized document management systems.

For Express Entry your duties must match the lead statement and most of the main duties above.

Example job titles

• archive technician
• library technician
• technical indexer - library

Employment requirements

• Library technicians usually require completion of a two- to three-year college program in library and information technology.
• Public archive technicians require completion of a college diploma or certificate program in archive and document management technology.

Similar jobs with a different code

• 51102Archivists
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