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A featured look at communities of practice through the lens of addressing the difficulties students with disabilities face in regards to completing school and finding employment. Communities of practice are introduced and explored by definition and example first and then specifically in regards to how they work or look in special education. Benefits and challenges are both represented in this work and a working example of Pennsylvania's IDEA Community of Practice is examined.

This article looks at some of the possible obstacles of forming communities of practice. The article broadly looks at communities of practice in organizations. The limitations include hierarchical organization as well as socio-cultural backgrounds. The authors make a well-researched case that both elements must be taken into account when forming effective communities of practice.

The authors springboard from a Cornell University study of the difficulties that humanities doctoral students have in finishing their degree to discuss the ways libraries can help improve student success. They show that the establishment of communities of practice are a necessary component of the success of doctoral students in the humanities. They then advocate for libraries to create and support these communities through providing designated space for doctoral students to collaborate and share information in the library and by offering discipline-specific research skills workshops.