Fostering Collaboration by Leading Communities of Practice

Freeman, Jacqueline L.; Downing, Karen; Myers, Claire; Thorsen, Allison; Jeremy, York,; Müller, Joseph; Yakel, Elizabeth

doi:10.1353/pla.2022.0048

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“…When considering the broader assemblage of stakeholders at the field school-faculty leaders, visiting scholars and specialists (including librarians), graduate and undergraduate students-we found another helpful frame in the "communities of practice" theory of social learning. First articulated by Lave and Wenger (1991) and later expanded and refined by Wenger (1998), the theory is recognized across disciplines, including in archaeology (see Dissard 2019;Watrall 2019) and librarianship (see Freeman et al 2022;McCluskey 2013). At their most essential, "communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly" (Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner 2015).…”

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Embedding Librarians in Archaeological Field Schools

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Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Participating in an archaeological field school is one of the only educational experiences that nearly all professional archaeologists have during their training. As a result, field schools are uniquely suited to provide experiential education in emerging skills that all archaeologists will need, such as information and data literacies at all stages of the contemporary research and publishing cycle. The “embedded” librarian program in the University of New Brunswick's Downeast Maine Coastal Archaeology Field School is an effective means to deploy that focused expertise to help students better understand the relationship between fieldwork, data, and dissemination. At the same time, being in the field provides librarians with the knowledge to respond more effectively to the complex data management and research needs of archaeologists. We encourage large research projects to consider librarians as specialist members of the research team.

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