“You Can’t Learn It in School”: Field Experiences and Their Contributions to 
Education and Professional Identity /

Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Berg 
From:  Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 
Volume 38, Number 3, September/septembre 2014 
pp. 220-238 | 10.1353/ils.2014.0015 Abstract:
Field experiences are uniquely positioned at the intersection of 
education and the workplace, making them key sites for the development 
of professional identity, which results from socialization processes 
that occur in both education and work environments. To explore how field 
experiences complement, diverge from, and intersect with classroom 
experiences, this research analysed interviews with and reports of 
Canadian library and information science students who did coop 
placements in academic libraries. The findings confirm that field 
experiences are important for linking classroom learning to practice and that 
they help illuminate the realities of librarianship and clarify 
the implications of classroom learning for practice. 
 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ils.2014.0015
 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ils.2014.0015



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