Presentation
Practicum in a Pandemic
SLRLN Tech Expo
(2021)
Abstract
The UMSL OA Practicum in a Pandemic Project began in April of 2020 at the
beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic made it impossible for many
graduate students to finish or find an in-person library practicum opportunity.
Helena Marvin, the Institutional Repository Librarian at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis devised and supervised a remote practicum for 14 SISTL
students, with 90 or 130 hours of work each, over the course of 2020. The
students collaborated to develop, document, enact, and update a workflow for
reviewing faculty works and discovering and harvesting Open Access articles. The
summer students were so successful that after completing UMSL faculty the
practicum focus expanded to include the other three UM System campuses'
faculty. Microsoft Teams and Zoom were used for communication and file
collaboration, in conjunction with a WordPress blog for showcasing the workflow
documentation and student activity logs. The blog is hosted by the UMSL Digital
Humanities Lab at http://umsldigitalhumanities.org/openaccess/. This
presentation will be about how that practicum went and advice for hosting a
practicum student virtually at your library.
Disciplines
Publication Date
March 3, 2021
Citation Information
Helena Marvin. "Practicum in a Pandemic" SLRLN Tech Expo (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/LenaMarvin/24/
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