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Learning by doing is considered one of the most effective ways to determine the application of practicalknowledge as well as theories learned at school. Through hands-on, internships, practicum, or work immersion,students get the chance to apply their learnings in the real world and see if the education is relevant to the actualworkforce. However, the upsurge of the pandemic made a tremendous impact on how this activity will be implementedin educational institutions. With most, if not all, temporarily closing their physical doors and suddenly shifting to theonline set-up, this activity became a challenging task for many professions including librarianship. This study aims todocument the impact of online work immersion among Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLIS) studentsat the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. The study highlighted the experiences of BLIS students whounderwent online work immersion during the school year 2022-2023 including their challenges and difficulties incompleting their work immersion hours. The study revealed that most of the students experienced some challenges interms of distance learning and connectivity issues. In addition, the said challenges were overcome through variouscoping mechanism strategies such as establishing rapport with workmates as well as learning and researching thegiven tasks in advance. The study also revealed a high preference for onsite practice training among students in termsof acquiring more knowledge and skills in the actual workforce.

online work immersion; LIS students; pandemic