Thursday, November 10, 2011

Practicums Abound for Spring! Practicum Students, Read On!

Are you ready for practicum? LTA 276 (2 credit hours) and LTA 278 (3 credit hours) are the Supervised Field Praciticum which are required for the LTA Certificate and A.A.S., respectively. You must have completed 21 hours of LTA coursework and have the permission of the LTA Dept. Chair to register. I have already received several phone calls from student who are seeking out and arranging their practicums for Spring 2012. If you haven't begun the process, please do so before time gets away from you!

Begin by reading the practicum information on the LTA website: http://yyz.clcillinois.edu/lta/Practicum.html This should answer the basic questions. The three forms which are necessary are also posted there. Take the initiative to think about your interests and where you would like to work before approaching a librarian about a practicum.

This semester, two public libraries and a high school library hosted LTA practicum students. So far for next semester, your classmates have done an awesome job reaching out to arrange their placements. One student will be in an academic library. Another has three libraries offering projects of different types. Others have their plans in the works but not yet finalized. Wow!

If you have questions or want to brainstorm a bit, please email me (jbeckwith@clcillinois.edu) or call me to discuss it ((847) 543-2000 x32210. When you have a placement, please notify me. When you are ready to register, let me know, and I will let the registration system know that you have permission.

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