Learning Resources Programs students complete a facilities plan that is a new library plan or a remodeling plan for a school that is being worked on in Austin ISD each semester. The librarian and others in charge of the actual design of the facility review the student plans and often use some of their ideas and concepts in the actual plan. In addition to the regular required hours for the practicum, often students return to the school in which they completed the practicum to help with special projects such as Book Fairs and Open House and to complete more hours working in the library. The Texas Bluebonnet Award is a Texas Library Associtaion Awad and Reading Motivation program for children in grades 3-6 that is promooted by school libraries across the state in collaboration with classroom teachers. Our mission is to train skilled professionals for preservation and conservation of library, archives, and other significant collections for research in the humanities.
Volunteer work can help students obtain jobs on campus that require previous library experience.
This can take the form of a practicum in which they spend a certain number of hours at a site under the direction of a professional librarian. Group members share an interest in both traditional oral storytelling and Web-based multimedia storytelling.