Overview
With support for the Simmons Office of Community Engagement, SLIS has developed a service-learning course to help promote student community involvement and service.
The Course
This course, titled LIS 505: Community Field Experience in LIS, is currently a special topics course which allows for our faculty to work with a local community site to develop a group-based field experience project for our students.
The course provides our students an opportunity to apply the skills and theoretical framework developed as part of their overall coursework at SLIS. This course is related to LIS 512: Advanced Field Experiences in LIS, but these sites are often ineligible for participation in curricular field experiences because they lack professional staff. Through LIS 505, students are able to gain practical field experience under the professional supervision of a faculty member while sites benefit from professional level work by our students and training for their volunteer or non-professional staff.
Projects
This course ran successfully for the first time in Summer 2021 at the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury, Massachusetts. You can learn more about this project here.
Work with Us
Are you a library, archives, or cultural heritage site with a project in mind? We’d love to connect! Email [email protected] to learn more about working with SLIS on your community project.