The person I’m interviewing has done a few different things. Do I need to stick with the job category you identified?
No, you don’t. For example, Jay Colbert has been a music librarian, a digital collections specialist, and a metadata specialist. I chose to write about his current profession, music librarianship, but it would be fine to switch gears and write about a different area he’s worked in.
How am I supposed to know about trends in the field?
This is one of the skills I want you to practice! Once you’ve identified major conferences and journals for the field, you should skim titles and abstracts in order to gain a sense of what issues people are talking about. It’s unlikely any piece of writing or scholarship will directly answer this question; instead, you need to survey the literature in order to infer the answer. Of course, you can also ask your expert in the interview.
How will you grade the assignment?
You can find a rubric on our Canvas site, under the “Rubric” menu.
How should my group turn in our dossier?
Because of the way Canvas works, please turn in your project in two places: via the “Specialization dossier” assignment and as a post on your section’s discussion board, as part of the Specialization Dossiers thread. That way your fellow students will be able to benefit from it. Please designate one person in your group to be the official turner-inner.
Should we cite our sources?
Yes, please! You’re welcome to use any citation style you like; just be consistent.