Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Eğitiminde Uygulamanın Önemi: Stajlar Üzerine Bir Araştırma ) Importance of Practice in the Information and Records Management Education: A Survey on Internships

Information and Records Management (IRM)departments instructed with 4 yeared curriculum on the undergraduate degree in Turkey. There are imperative internship implementation that students working in archives and libraries within certain periods in Turkish IRM departments. These internships take a month. In this study, do one month internship programs sufficient to internalize the practice of information and records management question will be answering. At the same time, if theory and practice concrescenced, students would be more qualified is being questioned. Study is occured to exploring these questions. "Recent internship implementation is not sufficient to preparing students for jobs done by them after they graduate" is the hypothesis. There are some questions asked to IRM alumnis who had been intern and has been working 18 months in archive or library and survey method is being used. Efficient of internships that the students have been learning for their potential jobs after they graduate, could be conduce making students more ready to working life. Writer is hoping to contribute this conducing process. The findings obtained in consequence of this study are mentioned like that: IRM alumnis,expressed that internships are not sufficient to prepare them for working life. Alumnis are thinking that internships that concrescenced with lessons in education period, would prepare better to profess.