• Highlight the importance of libraries and the critical role they play in education
• Provide students with the relevant technical competencies to work in libraries and information centres.     
• Promote library technical education and libraries as valuable assets in a country’s social, economic and cultural development.
• Educate and train library support staff to effectively and efficiently carry out their duties in libraries.
• Produce library technical workers for entry level positions in libraries, registries, information and documentation centres.
• Assist professional librarians in fulfilling the vision/mission of libraries to which they are employed.

To matriculate to the programme applicants must fulfill one of the following:

• Four (4) GCE O’Level passes inclusive of English Language with grade A, B or C. Or
• Four(4)  SSC passes inclusive of English Language range IV, V. Or 
• Four (4) CSEC passes inclusive of English Language with grade I, II or III. Grade III pass must be after June 1998.
• Mature students with relevant library experience of at least five (5) years are also admitted to the programme, subject to regulations and conditions determined by Excelsior Community College (ECC) and University College of Jamaica (UCJ), or any other certification equivalent to the above, e.g. US High School Diploma.
• Any other certification equivalent to 1 and 2 above. 

Students are required to complete 30 hours of Community Service as a part of their Course of Study.