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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Nowadays you need an MA in Information Management or similar. You only need to have NVQs to be a library assistant but that is very different from librarian. It is very poorly paid work, about the same as secretaries. The professional organisation for librarians is Cilip http://www.cilip.org.uk/
"10K"!!!! Tell him to get another job! I'm in my first post-MA job in a public library and I get �20k (includes London weighting). Pay is much higher in the commercial sector, but not as well paid as in other professions obviously.
Basically, it's a vocational profession. You do it because you believe in it. And I certainly don't think it's boring!
5029 - is your friend a Library Assistant or an Assistant Librarian? The titles may sound similar but they are completely different: you need a postgraduate qualification to be a Librarian, whereas anyone can be a Library Assistant.
Library Assistant jobs generally pay under �15K, Librarian jobs pay over �15K. I would be incredibly suprised if a qualified Librarian were earning under �10K, unless they were working part time!