590 IAC 5-3-1 Application requirements

Sec. 1. The following are requirements for new applicants for certification: (1) Newly hired staff members shall apply for certification prior to the seventh month of holding the position. (2) The application must be on a form prescribed and supplied by the Indiana library and historical board and shall indicate in the designated place the position occupied by the applicant. The application must also indicate in the designated place the grade of certificate requested or proposed for the applicant. (3) A person who is not presently under employment in an Indiana library may make application for a certificate on the prescribed form. (4) The applicant shall submit to the Indiana library and historical board official verification of the academic and library education claimed before a certificate is granted. (5) Certificates will be issued to persons who give proof of qualifications prescribed by the Indiana library and historical board for a requisite grade of certificate. Application for such certificate shall be made on the prescribed form, accompanied by the prescribed fee as established in section 3 of this rule. Such certificates shall be valid in respect to the level of positions they are designed to cover. (6) The qualifications in 590 IAC 5-4 for each grade of certificate are minimum requirements. Certificates issued therefore represent minimum standards of competence for the various levels of positions. Libraries may require higher qualifications for appointments to their staff, but cannot lawfully appoint to positions persons who have lower qualifications than those called for by the grades of certificates pertaining to the levels of position as prescribed by the Indiana library and historical board.