I feel that it will be my loss when I have completed the last few remaining hours. I've grown accustomed to the library and I will miss the staff very much. I feel like I'm an employee there. It will feel very strange to have to turn in my badge. Library and information studies, as a reflective practice, requires constant reexamination by both seasoned and novice members of the professional and academic community.
MLIS students are the future of the profession.
To realize that potential, they need the full support of both communities. Since the School's inception of the Practicum course in 1995, they have shared the Practicum instructor role for the course.