p-ISSN: 2354-9629 e-ISSN: 2549-1334 Copyright 2022©The author(s) 176 Irvan Muliyadi 1 1 Department of Library Science, Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar Correspondence email: irvanmuliyadi71@gmail.com DOI: 10.24252/kah/v10i2a7 (Submitted: 14-06-2022, Revised: 23-08-2022, Accepted: 12-11-2022) ABSTRACT Higher education should continuously ensure the link and match between curriculum and the work competency of the graduates. This study uses a survey method to foster the level of relevance of the LIS curriculum with the work competency of the LIS graduates. Seventy- six graduates participated in this survey to map the level of relevance of the 30 major courses of the LIS curriculum with their work competency. The result of this study shows that Computer Applications and Internet (92.3%), and cataloging for a monograph (91.5%) have a very high level of relevance with the work competency of the graduate. It indicates that the teaching materials on information organization and ICT use in the library should comprehensively and deeply be presented in LIS courses to strengthen such competencies. Similarly, Library Internship (91.3%), a course required to enhance any work competency of a LIS graduate, is Highly relevant to the work competency of the graduate. This means that the majority of LIS courses should involve a significant amount of the practical component. Bibliometric and Secondary Literature only show 47.8% and 50.5% of relevance for the two themes, respectively. The teaching materials for Bibliometric and Secondary Literature should not be described in as much length as other courses within the LIS curriculum because of the neutral degree of relevance of these two courses. Keywords: Library science curriculum; librarians competencies 1. INTRODUCTION Mapping the level of relevance of the library science (LIS) curriculum with the work competency of the graduates through a survey is a kind of tracer study. The goal of the tracer research is to strengthen the connection and alignment between the output of higher education institutions – in this case, the library science graduates of UIN Alauddin Makassar – and the job competency demanded by employers. An effective way to assess the quality of the growth of graduates' work competency would be to use the necessary information by asking how relevant the courses are to the graduates' work competency (Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia, 2018). The curriculum strongly shapes the competency obtained by the graduates because it is a guideline that contains objectives, content, learning strategies, and evaluation in organizing learning and teaching activities (Quality Assurance Unit of the State Institute for Islamic Studies of Purwokerto, 2017). The contents of the teaching materials of the curriculum reflect the Mapping the Relevance of Library Science Curriculum and Graduates Competencies: A Survey