Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3
Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Libraries, Archives and Information Services (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits45
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification27
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Allocating and checking work in a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal, regulatory and sector requirements relating to allocating and checking work in a team
- Understand key contextual information relating to allocating and checking work in a team
- Plan the work of a team
- Communicate work requirements to a team
- Support the work of the team
- Check the quality of the work of the team
Approaches to the organisation of information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processing of information and/or material within a Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) organisation
- Understand the accessioning, cataloguing and indexing of information and/or material within a LAIS organisation
- Understand the classification of information and/or material within a LAIS organisation
- Understand the use of ICT in relation to accessing information and/or material
Creating and maintaining a user-focussed environmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain acceptable standards for users of Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) facilities
- Understand how to minimise disruption to users of Libraries, Archives or Information Services
- Deal with users’ comments
- Provide directions on the use of facilities
- Set up a display
- Maintain and dismantle a display
Creating and maintaining a user-focussed environmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain acceptable standards for users of Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) facilities
- Understand how to minimise disruption to LAIS users
- Deal with users’ comments
- Provide directions on the use of facilities
- Create a display
- Maintain a display
Developing productive working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand relevant legal, regulatory and sector requirements relating to developing productive relationships with colleagues
- Understand key issues relating to developing productive relationships with colleagues
- Understand key contextual information relating to developing productive relationships with colleagues
- Create working relationships with colleagues
- Maintain working relationships with colleagues
Engaging with the wider communityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) needs of the wider community
- Understand the benefits of working with the community for a LAIS organisation
- Understand the use of ICT in the work of a LAIS organisation with the wider community
- Engage in consultation with the wider community
- Evaluate a consultation activity
Family HistoryReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to organise family history information
- Understand how to use sources for births, marriages and deaths
- Understand how to use other sources for researching family history
- Use a range of search techniques to trace family history on the internet
Health InformationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of evidence-based information within the field of health
- Use key sources of evidence–based healthcare
- Refine the search for evidence-based documents to meet user needs
- Support users in accessing health information
Helping users to obtain access to information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Establish user needs and requirements
- Conduct a search for users
- Select methods of supply
- Communicate courteously with users
Helping users to obtain access to information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Establish user needs and requirements
- Conduct a search for users
- Select methods of supply
- Communicate courteously with users
Issuing information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Implement access arrangements for information and/or material
- Provide access to information and/or material
- Process requests for information and/or material
Leading a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand relevant legal, regulatory and ethical requirements relating to leading a team
- Understand key contextual information relating to leading a team
- Provide direction to members of a team
- Motivate members of a team
- Support members of a team
- Monitor members of a team
Local StudiesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the local studies service
- Understand the sources in the local studies collection
- Understand the local studies collection policy
- Understand how to care for local studies materials
- Create access to local studies information
Locating and replacing information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain information and/or material safely and securely from storage areas
- Check the condition and arrangement of information and/or material
- Process returned information and/or material
- Replace information and/or materials safely and securely
Managing own resources and professional developmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key issues relating to managing own resources and professional development
- Understand key contextual information relating to managing own resources and professional development
- Understand own work role and future aspirations
- Plan own professional development
- Evaluate own professional development and performance
PalaeographyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the styles and characteristics of handwriting used in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800
- Understand the use of Latin in documents written before 1733
- Understand the use of set forms and abbreviations
- Understand dates, numbers and currency
- Understand how to transcribe documents written between 1500 and 1800
Promoting Libraries, Archives and Information ServicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and nature of promotional activities for Libraries, Archives and Information Services (LAIS)
- Understand target audiences for promotional activities
- Undertake a promotional activity
- Evaluate a promotional activity
Protecting, securing and copying information and/or materialReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Protect information and/or material
- Minimise the risks to the safety of stored information and/or material and storage areas
- Monitor and respond to users’ handling of information and/or material
- Copy information and/or material
Providing induction and orientation activities for usersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of induction and orientation
- Plan induction and orientation activities for users
- Review the plan with other parties
- Deliver induction and orientation activities for users
- Evaluate induction and orientation activities for users
Reader DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how readers choose what to read
- Understand the role of library staff in promoting reader development
- Understand the role of peer recommendation in reader development
- Understand key issues relevant to the promotion of reading material
- Promote reading material
- Use ICT to promote reader development
School LibrarianshipReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Manage a School Library Service
- Use resources within a School Library environment
- Demonstrate cross-partnership working
- Maintain a School Library environment
- Promote a School Library Service
Supporting users to make use of digital resourcesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and types of digital resources available for users
- Support users in searching for information using digital resources
- Support users to communicate using digital resources
- Understand issues relating to internet safety and own organisation’s policies around internet use
- Understand how own ICT skills can be updated
Supporting users to make use of digital resourcesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and types of digital resources available for users
- Support users in searching for information using digital resources
- Support users to communicate using digital resources
- Understand issues relating to internet safety and own organisation’s policies around internet use
- Understand how own ICT skills can updated
Understanding a Libraries, Archives or Information Service organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key aspects of a Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) organisation
- Understand key policies of a LAIS organisation
- Understand the role of key stakeholders of a LAIS organisation
- Understand the requirements of the users of a LAIS organisation
- Understand how to work as part of a team in a LAIS organisation
Understanding a Libraries, Archives or Information Services organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key aspects of a Libraries, Archives or Information Services (LAIS) organisation
- Understand key policies of a LAIS organisation
- Understand the role of key stakeholders of a LAIS organisation
- Understand the requirements of the users of a LAIS organisation
- Understand how to work as part of a team in a Libraries, Archives and Information Services organisation
Understanding the Libraries, Archives and Information Services environmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of key types of organisations in the Libraries, Archives and Information Services (LAIS) sector
- Understand trends and developments in the LAIS sector
- Understand the importance of key legislation for the LAIS sector
- Understand the role of national professional organisations in the LAIS sector
Understanding the Libraries, Archives and Information Services environmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of key types of organisations in the Libraries, Archives and Information Services (LAIS) sector
- Understand the potential impact of trends and developments in the LAIS sector
- Understand the importance of key legislation for the LAIS sector
- Understand the role of national professional organisations in the LAIS sector
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Allocate and check work in your team
- Critically appraise clinical information and evidence
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues
- Manage your own resources and professional development
- Promote resources and services
- Search for clinical information and evidence according to an accepted methodology
- Search information, evidence and knowledge resources and communicate the results
- Understand the organisation
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 Diploma in Libraries, Archives and Information Services (QCF)
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Allocating and checking work in a team
- Approaches to the organisation of information and/or material
- Creating and maintaining a user-focussed environment
- Developing productive working relationships with colleagues
- Engaging with the wider community
- Family History
and 17 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.