Field Experience: Site Selection

Site Selection

Field experience sites are identified in a variety of ways. Information organizations and information professionals may seek interested students by contacting the Field Experience Coordinator. The School may identify potential organizations and solicit their participation. A student may identify a potential organization and negotiate with a potential site supervisor to do a field experience at that site. All new sites will be reviewed by the Field Experience Coordinator or another faculty member (the potential faculty supervisor) to ensure that they meet the following criteria:

• The Field Experience must constitute a learning experience for the student.
• A practicing professional must agree to act as the student's site supervisor.
• The student's work / project / tasks must be primarily of a professional or beginning professional nature.

Please note: You may not conduct a field experience around projects or tasks on which you are already working. The field experience is intended to provide you with a new learning experience and the opportunity to fulfill new learning objectives. You may conduct a field experience at your existing job or internship, but it must be around a new project or a distinctly different set of tasks than you have previously been involved in. Likewise, you cannot register for a field experience retroactively, for a job or internship that is already underway or completed.

For a list of recommended sites and sites that are currently seeking interns, please refer to the Sites page.