Farmer, Lesley2025-09-242025-09-242017Cook, D., & Farmer, L. (Eds.). (2011). Using qualitative methods in action research. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes (2nd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Farmer, L. (2017). Managing the successful school library. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Farmer, L. (2016). Information and digital literacies: A curricular guide for middle and high school librarians. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Farmer, L. (2011). Instructional design for librarians and information professionals. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman. Farmer, L., & Safer, A. (2016). Library improvement through data analytics. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6162This paper describes the field experience for teacher librarian (TL) candidates at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). The three key components include: 1) the series of data collection tools that structure the experience; 2) the analytic conversations and actions that arise from analyzing the data jointly; and 3) the impact of the data collection, analysis and actions on the teacher librarian candidate and site teacher librarian’s practices.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttp://2017.ifla.org/open accessField experiencedatateacher librariansschool librariesself-assessment