A proposed training program for training students of the Library and Information Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University in the course "Practical Training" | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 7, المجلد السابع -العدد الأول - Serial Number 1, June 2020, Page 93-110 PDF (2.06 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2020.105221 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Dr. Mona Abd ElAziz Abd ElGhafar* | ||||
| Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The research is an exploratory study of the views of the students in the Department of Libraries and Information - Alexandria University, on the course of the field training, and try to benefit from the open source programs and the websites that simulate the information services that the students training in the libraries, and thus introduce students to the techniques used in the global libraries. To Competition for the labor market.The study also concluded that the practical training course should be taught for at least two full years, the number of hours of the course should be increased, and the practical training plan should be drawn from a consultative group of its members Teaching the department, and scientific trips to visit major libraries such as the National Library, the Central Library of Cairo University, the American University Library, providing a computer lab equipped with available open source library programs to train students. There is no gap between the theoretical study and the actual reality, with the need to hold meetings between the professor of material and students before the training period, where the clarification of the training plan and explain everything related to the practical training program, in addition to coordination with the large and diverse libraries for the training of students during the summer period, And to focus on teaching the technological materials for students in a practical way and bring them all new in the field of specialization. The study also showed that the percentage of male students in the library department reached 2.6%, while the proportion of females reached 97.4%, which indicates that there is an unclear reason for the reluctance of male students to join the department, and 63.3% of students said that the duration of training is insufficient, as explained 60% of the students were satisfied with the practical training program. The opinions of the students on the evaluation of the supervisors varied as the experience and seriousness of the training supervisor came in first place by 73.3%, followed by his good knowledge to distinguish between students and determine their level in the second place by 62%. It turned out that the benefits of practical training for students is to develop the ability to develop Dialogue reached 84.6%, followed by the ability to confront students by 81.3%, while the last place came the training component of what was studied by 63.3%, so the views of students differed on their knowledge of recent developments in the specialty, where they came to knowledge of global databases In the first place with 36.6%, followed by open source systems by 16.6%, while the self-lending technology and the index available on-line in the last two places by 6.6%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Training program | ||||
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