ArticleAuthors: Tricia Lantzy; Talitha Matlin (2021)
Science library internships at academic libraries serving diverse
student populations may increase the visibility of science librarianship
as a career path for undergraduates in the sciences
and may help to attract students from diverse backgrounds to the profession. While internships are a “high-impact practice,”
there is little direct assessment of student learning in the literature
that measures both perceived and demonstrated learning
during an internship. The aim of this case study is to
describe how librarians at one university library used multiple
direct and indirect learning assessments to evaluate and make
curricular changes to a science library internship program.<...