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Library and Information Services Professional Practice

LIS704

  • Level 7
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This online Library and Information Services course will enable you to develop professional practice skills in a relevant area under professional supervision.

You will follow an individual plan of development within a framework of options that will include, but not be limited to, workplace placements.

The professional practice topics chosen will be directly relevant to your workplace or planned sector of employment. You will engage with professional practice in workplace settings beyond your current role, interacting with library and information service professionals, to extend your understanding and skill-base. You will demonstrate that you can apply communication skills, professional values and ethics, and practice skills to your work.

During the course, you will use reflection techniques and practice supervision to articulate and critically reflect on your application of practice skills.

Your professional practice project needs to be approved by the course leader before you enrol. You should read the course handbook and contact the course leader at least 8 weeks before the start of trimester.
Professional Practice Handbook (PDF)

 

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • Read the course handbook.
  • Determine what you will do for your professional practice.
  • Contact the course leader (see course handbook).

 

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

 

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

  • Analyse their need for development in practice skills and develop a plan to achieve these in a relevant library and information service context.
  • Operate professionally with library and information service practitioners and library and information service work.
  • Apply practice skills within workplace settings.
  • Evaluate performance and professional interactions with others in a relevant library and information service context.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course.

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

How to apply

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