The Cranston Public Library Central Branch Children’s Room was looking for a PFE student to index the picture book collection by teaching and literacy topics. These teaching and literacy topics include figurative language, letter sounds, word families, and literary genres. The criteria for this project expanded to include Cumulative Stories, Wordless, and another category which include a variety of topics that meet the criteria of the project of teaching topics but were not identified in the beginning. One example of this other category were books with coding concepts or non-physical disabilities. We chose to delete literacy genres from this project because of the scope of the project and the time allocated. The process of reviewing the picture book section was by handling the books individually following a completed report identifying the collection by category index number. This project was not completed by the time the PFE hours ended. The collection was reviewed up to the letter S. A shared Google spreadsheet was created for the Cranston Public Library Children’s librarians and staff to use. This Google spreadsheet does identify all required criteria for this PFE project up to authors name beginning with Thu, but the entire picture book collection was not reviewed or included in this spreadsheet, most of the Tit to Z authors were not included.

University of Rhode Island

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

LSC 595: Professional Field Experience:

Learning Contract

Please fill out and return the completed form to Dr. Karno one week prior to the start of the session. This agreement must be signed by the student, Site Supervisor, and instructor before the student's site work begins.

Contact Information

Student

(Name, address, phone, and e-mail):

Caryn Gagner, 22 Piedmont ST, Whitinsville, MA, 01588, 508-244-9006, caryn_gagner@uri.edu

Supervising Librarian

(Name, address, institution, phone, and e-mail):

Emily Brown, 140 Sockanosset Cross RD, Cranston, RI. 02920 401-943-9080 emilybrown@cranstonlibrary.org

Faculty Supervisor

Dr. Lauren Mandel, URI GSLIS, lauren_mandel@uri.edu

PFE Details

Credit hours

45 credits Fall 2021 Session 1

90 credits Fall 2021 Session 2

Term and Session(s)

Fall 2021 Sessions 1 & 2

Hours on site

(45 per credit)

135 Hours

Start date

September 10, 2021

End date

December 17, 2021

Concise Description

(e.g., “Children’s library services” or “Organization of information/metadata, or “Reference and Instruction” or Digital Services, etc.)

Organization of information in Children’s catalog.

Major Goals and Outcomes

Please list here at Least 2 GSLIS Educational Goals, with at least 4 GSLIS Educational Outcomes spread across those Goals. For instance, you could list 3 Goals, the first with 1 Outcome, the second with 1 Outcome, and the 3rd with 2 Outcomes to fulfill this requirement. Or, you could list 2 Goals, each with 2 Outcomes. You are welcome to list as many applicable Goals and Outcomes as you wish. As an Example: for a PFE in digital initiatives, two Outcomes could be based on Educational Goal 3, “Media and Technology,” and two Outcomes could be based on Educational Goal 2, “Information Literacies and Lifelong Learning”. In this example you could list 2.3 and 2.4 beneath Goal 2, and 3.1 and 3.3 beneath Goal 3. Then, in the next section, you will list which specific activities achieve 2.3. and 2.4, as well as 3.1 and 3.3. Please see attached page for the list of the GSLIS Educational Learning Goals and Outcomes.

Goal 1 Foundations:

1.4 Graduate explains the principles involved in the organization of recorded knowledge and information.

1.5 Graduate explain the national and international standards of cataloging, metadata, indexing, and classification systems for organizing recorded knowledge and information for retrieval

Goal 2 Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning:

2.1 Graduate locate, retrieve, evaluate, and synthesize information from diverse sources to meet information needs.

2.2 Graduate explain and apply the concepts, principles, theories, philosophies, and techniques of diverse individuals and groups with access to relevant and accurate recorded knowledge and information.

Specific Activities to Be Carried out in Support of Goals and Outcomes

Student practice will support the major Goals and Outcomes. For instance, a digital initiative services placement might support Goal 3, Outcome 3.1 through digitization service and organizing digital objects for diverse users’ needs, and Outcome 3.3 by learning and teaching new technology.

Graduate will go book by book to identify and index picture book collections for popular literacy topics like letter sounds, word families, and literacy devices.

Graduate will use reports to also find and identify items with specific literacy topics and other larger group topics.

Course Assignments

Work on site, scheduled with the Site Supervisor during the session, is the student’s primary responsibility; 45 hours on site are expected for each academic credit. The Site Supervisor will submit an evaluation of the student’s performance; instructor will base 30% of the course grade on this evaluation. Other assignments are intended to support reflection on practice and to generate evidence of the student’s achievement.

• Learning Contract: This is due one week before session starts and to be included in E-Portfolio; 4% of course grade

• Journals: 2 installments are due, each worth 10%; 20% of course grade

• Discussion Participation: For each of the 7 weeks in the session, students will post in the Brightspace Discussions once per week (due by Thursday) and reply to two classmates’ posts (due by Monday); each week’s posts are worth 3%; 21% of course grade

• E-Portfolio: Students will work on and submit an E-Portfolio detailing their accomplishments and experiences during their PFE; 25% of course grade

• Assessment Instrument: Student work on site will be assessed at the end of the session; 30% of course grade

Assignments are described in the syllabus. All samples of your work at your site should be included in your portfolio with evidence of your objectives achieved.

Faculty Supervisor Responsibilities

• Structure PFE course

• Assist students as needed in framing educational objectives and finding appropriate placements

• Support Site Supervisors as needed

• Promote students’ reflection on theory & practice through moderated discussion on learning platforms, etc.

• Evaluate student products (journals, portfolios, etc.)

• In consultation with Site Supervisors, evaluate and grade student performance

Site Supervisor Responsibilities

• Collaborate with students on PFE Learning Contract and sign Learning Contract.

• Make necessary arrangements with the site

• Orient student to site

• Communicate with Faculty Supervisor on student progress

• Complete written evaluation of student performance by the last day of class

Student ________________Date 8/19/2021

Site Supervisor __________Date 8/19/2021

Faculty Supervisor _______Date 8/20/2021

PFE at West Warwick Public Library working with the Friends of West Warwick Public Library Spring 2022.