Teaching social work concepts to LIS students

Johnson, Sarah C.

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Title

Teaching social work concepts to LIS students

Author(s)

Johnson, Sarah C.

Issue Date

2023-09

Keyword(s)

• Curriculum
• Education Programs/schools
• Interdisciplinary Education
• LIS Curricula
• LIS Education
• Public Libraries
• Social Work
• Students
• Teaching Faculty

Abstract

While there has been tremendous growth in the number of partnerships between social work and public libraries in the last fifteen years, an educational gap exists in teaching students about social work concepts within library and information science (LIS) graduate curricula. Recent scholarship does speak to the importance of integrating social work skills and knowledge into LIS coursework, yet little has been written about what this instruction looks like in practice. This thought piece demonstrates an originality of ideas by describing the content, structure, and goals of a cross-disciplinary graduate course entitled Library Social Work. In doing so, the author aims to illustrate the significance of incorporating concepts and themes into LIS curricula to better prepare students for the field of public librarianship and ultimately to benefit library patrons and librarians themselves.

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/123123

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1282

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2023 Sarah C. Johnson
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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