[Publib] a question from a new LIS student

[Cherry, Kevin]

Each one of the required courses in our program requires a "field contact." These "field contacts" lead up to an internship. The "intensity" of the field contacts differ by course. In the Foundations Course (an overview of the profession, professional ethics, and legal issues), students complete two "field contacts;" One is an interview with a librarian with questions much like the question from a new LIS studen  that was asked here, and a site visit report where students unobstrusively observe librarian and users interacting. There are online discussions about their findings, reflection essays, etc. that follow-up on these experiences. (Students also are expected to lurk on library listservs as a part of this class, as well.)  In the Collection Development class, the field contact is more "intensive" as students work with a partner library to evaualte a SMALL section of the library for weeding, rewrite or write a collection development policy, etc. 
 
It just depends upon the program on how much interaction students have with professionals. 
 
Kevin Cherry
Instructor
Dept. of Library Science and Instructional Technology
College of Education
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Abigail Goben
Sent: Sat 6/2/2007 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Publib] 


I was in my MLS program (again...showing my age) somewhat more recently than Sue (still pre Lib 2.0) but we weren't required to ask those kinds of questions either...  Perhaps it's just the difference in LIS profs? 


On 6/2/07, Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com> wrote: TSince I was in libhrary school shortly after the invention of moveable type
(and I'm revealing my age by calling it "library school"), I don't recall
our having to do that kind of research, not even asking assorted librarians 
we might encounter on-campus or off that question.

-- 
Abigail Goben, MLS
abigailgoben at gmail.com 
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