Professional+Placement-outline


 * The placement**

The placement you will undertake as a teacher librarianship student will comprise ten days of observing/participating in professional level duties, normally undertaken in a two-week block, in an approved information agency. The challenge of the placement is to investigate and understand an information agency in its community/organisational context, and to perceive more broadly your own role as an information professional. It is anticipated that the placement will provide a genuine taste of professional work, with the sponsoring information agency gaining an extra, motivated and productive member of staff, albeit temporarily.

If you are not currently working, or have not recently worked, as a teacher librarian then you can choose your placement site from the full range of types of libraries and information agencies including school libraries. If you are currently working or have recently worked, as a full time or part time teacher librarian you are not eligible to undertake your placement in a school library. Working in a different type of library or information agency enables you to see and experience roles with which you are familiar applied in a different context and frequently in differing ways and on a different scale. Doing your placement in a library or information agency other than a school library also gives you the opportunity to undertake your placement during school holidays.

During your placement you will be under the supervision of a professional member of staff who will devise a program for you and then guide and assist you while on placement, frequently with the involvement of other staff. This supervisor will also complete a report for the School of Information Studies at the completion of your placement. During and following the placement you are required to document your observations, reflections and analysis in a report.

Guidelines for organising your placement are available at the [|Professional Experience website].

The professional experience officer plays a major role in the organisation and administration of placements. Questions about the placement can be directed to the professional experience officer on:

Phone: (02) 6933 2460 (02) 6933 2460 Fax: (02) 6933 2733 Email: profexp@csu.edu.au