CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources 2006
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the 2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Now in its third year, the fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop expertise in the new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions. The program offers fellowships to individuals who have earned their Ph.D.s in disciplines in the humanities within the past five years (or who will earn them before starting the program) and who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. All
fields in the humanities will be considered; Fellows must be in residence at a
sponsoring institution for the duration of the fellowship.
The CLIR Fellowship Program is designed to give the best recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop as information professionals and scholars. Fellows are placed at different institutions, each with specific goals and projects for the participants. Fellows are afforded the opportunity to participate in the intellectual life of their institutions by working within the areas of academic librarianship; archives and archive management; special collections; curricular development; teaching and learning support (techno-pedagogy); and digital resource production and use. In addition, Fellows contribute to the development
of the CLIR Program by participating in an intensive summer seminar; sharing
work-in-progress through electronic portfolios; meeting regularly in virtual
seminars with leading figures in the fields of librarianship, the humanities, and other related areas. Previous Fellows have gone on to launch careers in libraries, archives and special collections; consulting and writing; digital resource management; pedagogy support; and university faculty positions. A few of the Fellows have decided to pursue additional degrees in Library and Information Sciences and/or Technology.
Fellowships of one to two years in length will be awarded. The fellowship will pay a salary plus benefits at one of the collaborating research libraries, each of which will serve as a fellowship sponsor. The fellowship includes an intensive seminar designed to challenge participants to think broadly about the changes under way in research methodologies, the creation of new scholarly resources, and the demands
these changes place on critical academic institutions such as universities, libraries and archives. CLIR believes that the deep subject knowledge PhDs offer, combined with their experiences in the classroom and with research trends, can be invaluable to the development of pedagogically-sound scholarly resources. While libraries are increasingly hiring IT specialists to complement the traditional work performed by librarians, they are also becoming aware of the need to hire advanced scholar-professionals whose abilities span the areas of subject specialization, pedagogy, technology, and new media research. Scholars pursuing innovative career paths in universities, libraries, archives, and special collections can play a
crucial role in shaping the future of scholarly resource management and use
across academe, and the fellowship provides hands-on experience and theoretical foundations in the traditional and emerging approaches to scholarship creation and stewardship.
Participant Eligibility
At this time, this program is limited to scholars in the humanities. For the
fields included in the humanities, we have adopted the definition used by NEH:
According to the 1965 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, "The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life."
The applicant must have received a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline no more than five years before applying (i.e., after February 24, 2001); if a Ph.D. has not yet been received, all work toward the degree (including dissertation defense and final dissertation editing) must be completed before starting the fellowship.
Program Timeline
Applications and all accompanying information must be sent to CLIR, postmarked no later than February 24, 2006.
Applicants will be notified of their status in April.
The seminar will be held in the summer of 2006 at Bryn Mawr College. The fellowship will begin mid-summer (dates will vary somewhat by institution).
Website: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html
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