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This book was compiled and edited by a librarian who was instrumental in getting funding from a Library Services and Technology Act grant to carry out an internship program in public libraries. The grant allowed the MCLS consortium of public libraries in the Los Angeles area to place library school students in paid internships in MCLS member libraries. The successful program was called 'From Interns to Library Leaders' (FILL), and led in part to this book, which offers firsthand 'advice from the field' provided by former public library interns and internship site supervisors. Contributors include a diverse group of voices and representative experiences from around the country, who had either worked as or supervised a student intern in one of the many fields of public librarianship (e.g., public services, children's, technical services, branches, etc.). The result: eighteen chapters written by practitioners and library school faculty, who generously share what it's like to participate in a public library internship.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I. Developing Effective Public Library Internship Programs
Chapter 4 1. Library School Internships: A Review of the Literature
Chapter 5 2. Library School Intership Programs: How UCLA Does It
Chapter 6 3. The LIS Practicum: An Internship with Academic Credit
Chapter 7 4. Santa Clara County Library's Graduate Library Intern Program
Chapter 8 5. Creating an Internship Policy for the Glendale Public Library
Chapter 9 6. Insider Training
Part 10 II. Traditional Public Library Internship Settings
Chapter 11 7. Internships in a Public Library Reference Department
Chapter 12 8. "And Other Duties as Assigned": Iowa City Public Library's First Children's Services Intern
Chapter 13 9. How I Spent My Summer Vacation: An Internship Experience at New York Public Library's Teen Central
Chapter 14 10. LEEPing into the Profession: INterning at the Vacaville Public Library
Chapter 15 11. Exploring Public Librarians' Many ROles through a Library System INternship, or How to Learn Thirty Jobs in as Many Days
Chapter 16 12. Mentoring Library Technicians
Part 17 III. Nontraditional Public Library Internship Settings
Chapter 18 13. The Tribal Library Intern Project: A Practicum in Cultural Lessons
Chapter 19 14. LIteracy Internships: Take a Plunge into the Deep End
Chapter 20 15. Internships in Public Library Archives and Local History Collections
Chapter 21 16. One Special Collection, Many Personal Paths
Part 22 IV. Using Internships as a Recruitment Tool
Chapter 23 17. "Recruitment Through Mentoring": Success in Illinois
Chapter 24 18. The "Working with Kids @ Your Library" Mentorship Program, County of Los Angeles Public Library
Chapter 25 19. The FILL Project: Using Internships to Recruit at the System Level
Chapter 26 20. Recruitment: Miami-Dade Public Library System's Intern/Trainee Program
Part 27 Index
Part 28 About the Authors
Product details
| Published | Jul 24 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 200 |
| ISBN | 9780810851863 |
| Imprint | Scarecrow Press |
| Dimensions | 227 x 180 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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