PGCert Library Parity and Off-Campus Licences

Academic Overview

Off-campus licences fail in the small print: alumni, partner students, and ‘UK only’ IP ranges that exclude a student on a Polish island. This PGCert starts with those clauses. You will audit a reading list, propose lawful substitutes, and brief a dean when a module cannot be dual pathway without a purchase. Identity-checked assessment still needs a library. Faculty mark whether you can explain that to a budget holder without hiding behind a discovery-layer screenshot. The award is not CILIP chartership and not Jisc employment. Capstones are parity audits for a named dual-pathway programme. IU International University of Applied Sciences will fail a parity audit that assumes a campus walk-in right equals remote access. You will name UK-only IP ranges, alumni exclusions, and modules that cannot honestly run online without purchase. Faculty mark whether student-facing guidance matches the click path. No publisher, Jisc, or CILIP logos. Storm weeks and phone-only access belong in the dossier because they are how dual-pathway students actually read. If the set chapter is unlawful off-campus, the module is not dual pathway until the reading list changes. That is the whole point. PGCert Library Parity and Off-Campus Licences is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 9 months, and the credit total is 15. Students move from Walk-In, Remote, and Authentication Reality through Walk-In, Remote, and Authentication Reality; UK-Only, Site, and Alumni Clauses; Auditing a Dual-Pathway List; Comms that Match the Click Path; Polish HE Library Practice Literacy, and finish on Polish HE Library Practice Literacy. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Audit a reading list for campus/online licence parity Explain vendor clauses to academics without theatre Specify lawful substitutes and purchase cases Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 15 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Academic liaison librarian (academic PGCert; not chartership)
• Reading-list and content coordinator
• E-resources officer
• Dual-pathway programme resource lead
• Library user-experience (access) officer

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.