Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study
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2008
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Community High Education Service Partnership
Abstract
The case study describes a service learning project in Library and Information
Science. In 2002, 14 students enrolled for the service learning elective � the 4th year
second semester module, Children�s and Youth Library and Information Services (LS
421). The final year second semester programme comprises four equally weighted
modules: an elective, a bibliography project and two fieldwork modules. In 2002 the
strategy for LS 421 was to merge it with the two fieldwork modules. Students spent
two days a week in the three libraries in Delft, Delft South and Bellville South and
attended a weekly seminar. The aim was to embed the learning of the LS 421 course
in their experience in the libraries. The children and youth of the Delft and Bellville
South face huge challenges arising from the histories and socio-economics of their
communities. The lack of literacy and information literacy was identified as an area
for the intervention of librarian students. The case study reports the various
challenges encountered and concludes that more interrogation of the difference
between library based fieldwork and service learning is required.
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Service-learning, Library service for youth, Library service for children
Citation
Hart, G. (2008). Service learning in a course in children�s & youth library & information services: a case study. In: Withers, J. (ed). Service learning in the disciplines: lessons from the field. Pretoria: Community High Education Service Partnership, pp159-176