School of Library and Information Science University of Kentucky 502 King Library South Lexington Kentucky 40506-0039 Course LIS 675 Professional Field Experience LEARNING CONTRACT A student who is enrolled in course LIS 675 is required to complete 140 hours of field work during the semester or term of the enrollment, and to complete a term paper which examines some aspect of the work of the placement. Pages 1 and 2 must be completed before the start of the semester or term in which the professional field experience will be done, and are to be completed by the student in consultation with the Placement Supervisor, except that the student is to complete the description of the term paper in consultation with the course coordinator, Assistant Director Dennis Carrigan. When pages 1 and 2 have been completed, the student and Placement Supervisor sign on page 2, and the student then submits pages 1 and 2 to the course coordinator, prior to the beginning of the semester or term. The Assistant Director's signature indicates School agreement to the contract. When he has signed, the Assistant Director will return copies to the parties. At the end of the term, the Placement Supervisor completes pages 3-5 and submits them to the Assistant Director. Student name ______________________________________________________________________________________ Professional field experience would be done: semester or term _________________________________ year __________ Student soc sec no _______/______/________ & email address ______________________________________________ Supervisor name & title _______________________________________________________________________________ Supervisor phone __________________________ & email address ___________________________________________ Agency/library ______________________________________________________________________________________ Agency/library address _______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ I. Describe nature of placement and student's responsibilities. (If a separate sheet is used, please repeat this heading.) II. Describe student's learning objective(s) and how the placement will allow it/them to be realized. (If a separate sheet is used, please repeat this heading.) III. Set forth the criteria for evaluating the student's performance in the placement, which will account for 70% of course grade. (If a separate sheet is used, please repeat this heading.) IV. Describe the term paper, which is to be a part of this course, and which will account for 30% of course grade. (If a separate sheet is used, please repeat this heading.) (Instructions for term paper: The term paper's topic must relate in a general way to the work done in the placement. The term paper is not to be a diary or log or description of work done in the placement, but is to focus on the intellectual aspect of the work. It must be at least 10 pages, typed double-spaced, with a 1" margin at the top, bottom, and both sides. There must be endnote references to at least 10 items [journal articles, books] that were used to write the paper. In meeting the requirement that the paper be at least 10 pages, any title page, the bibliography, attachments, etc, are not counted.) SIGNATURES: Student _____________________________________________________ Date _____________________ Placement supervisor___________________________________________ Date ____________________ Assistant Director______________________________________________ Date ____________________ STUDENT AND PLACEMENT SUPERVISOR: At the end of the term, I must submit a grade for this course, by a deadline set by the Registrar's Office. To enable me to comply with that deadline, please adhere to the dates below for having the evaluation and term paper to me. I will insert the dates when I sign the Learning Contract. For fall or spring semester, the dates will be the last day of classes (term paper) and last day of semester (evaluation). For summer, the date for both will be the last day of the term. The EVALUATION completed by the PLACEMENT SUPERVISOR is due not later than: __________________________ (The evaluation may be faxed to me at 859 257-4205.) The TERM PAPER completed by the STUDENT is due not later than: __________________________ (The term paper may not be faxed but may be sent as a Word file attached to e-mail: carrigan@uky.edu.)