{"id":48,"date":"2025-01-24T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:49:10","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This website is a resource for site supervisors and students interested in learning more about Simmons School of Library and Information Science&#8217;s (SLIS) curricular field opportunities. <\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program provides students with valuable hands-on experiences and networking opportunities in the field. <\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SLIS offers two unique field experience options for students<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>LIS 438: Introduction to Archival Theory and Practice<\/strong> is an introductory archives course that enables students to gain a solid understanding of archival theory and hands-on experience in archival practice.\u00a0 It includes\u00a0a 60-hour field experience assignment. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>LIS 512: Advanced Field Experience<\/strong> is a field experience in any type of library or information science institution for students who have completed 18 credits or more.&nbsp; Projects are expected to be advanced in nature.&nbsp; Placement for this field experience is led by the student\u2019s interests and constitutes 130 hours of onsite work.&nbsp; There is an online, academic component as well.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Please use the navigation at the top of this page to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is a resource for site supervisors and students interested in learning more about Simmons School of Library and Information Science&#8217;s (SLIS) curricular field opportunities. This program provides students with valuable hands-on experiences and networking opportunities in the field. SLIS offers two unique field experience options for students: LIS 438: Introduction to Archival Theory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/fieldexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}