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“You Can’T Learn It In School”: Field Experiences And Their Contributions To Education And Professional Identity, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Berg
“You Can’T Learn It In School”: Field Experiences And Their Contributions To Education And Professional Identity, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Berg
Selinda Adelle Berg
Field experiences are uniquely positioned at the intersection of education and the workplace, making them key sites for the development of professional identity, which results from socialization processes that occur in both education and work environments. To explore how field experiences complement, diverge from, and intersect with classroom experiences, this research analysed interviews with and reports of Canadian library and information science students who did coop placements in academic libraries. The findings confirm that field experiences are important for linking classroom learning to practice and that they help illuminate the realities of librarianship and clarify the implications of classroom learning …
“You Can’T Learn It In School”: Field Experiences And Their Contributions To Education And Professional Identity, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Berg
“You Can’T Learn It In School”: Field Experiences And Their Contributions To Education And Professional Identity, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Berg
Kristin Hoffmann
Field experiences are uniquely positioned at the intersection of education and the workplace, making them key sites for the development of professional identity, which results from socialization processes that occur in both education and work environments. To explore how field experiences complement, diverge from, and intersect with classroom experiences, this research analysed interviews with and reports of Canadian library and information science students who did coop placements in academic libraries. The findings confirm that field experiences are important for linking classroom learning to practice and that they help illuminate the realities of librarianship and clarify the implications of classroom learning …
Academic Libraries Supporting Visual Culture: A Survey Of Image Access And Use, Jennifer Mayer, Cheryl Goldenstein
Academic Libraries Supporting Visual Culture: A Survey Of Image Access And Use, Jennifer Mayer, Cheryl Goldenstein
Cheryl Goldenstein
Academic library collections have largely reflected the dominance of text for teaching and scholarship, though our culture is increasingly visual. The authors developed a survey to answer questions about the demand for images in academic libraries and how librarians are adapting services and collections to a more visual culture. The survey was distributed to nine electronic mailing lists related to academic librarianship, resulting in 225 unique responses from diverse institutions. Survey responses indicate librarians embrace images and are finding creative ways to access both individual images and collections, though aspects of visual resources pose challenges.