CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Tim Stinson
Johns Hopkins University

"The two years that I spent as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow provided me with numerous opportunities for personal and professional growth, and my experiences continue to shape my career in fundamental ways. For example, my work on the Roman de la Rose Digital Library afforded me the chance to learn about digital publishing, intellectual property and copyright, funding insitutions and grant writing, and communications between scholars and librarians. The CLIR fellowship provides an ideal environment for expanding one's professional horizons through an exploration of these issues, and of learning about academic libraries and their connections both to the universities they serve and the broader world of scholarship and education."

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Patricia Hswe
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

"As a Fellow, I was engaged in a wide variety of projects: an inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian digital projects; the digitization of a 20th-century Czech and Slovak poster collection; the organization of library tours conducted in languages such as Chinese, Korean, French, Russian, and Thai; and the planning of workshops on text encoding and digitization. The post-doc experience introduced me to alternative career paths and to alternative ideas for tenure-worthy scholarship that "thinks outside the box" of the book. As a result I am committed to fostering strong collaborations between faculty and librarians/archivists toward re-shaping the idea of scholarship in the academy."

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Marta Brunner
University of California, Los Angeles

"The fellowship gave me a unique opportunity to engage at a high, theoretical level with a range of pressing uses facing academic libraries, as well as hands-on experience in one of the nation's leading research libraries. I got intensive training in collection development, library instruction, reference service, and scholarly communication while also managing two digital projects. Now I am subject specialist librarian and head of Collections, Research, and Instructional Services in the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA."

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Wesley Raabe
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

"During the period of the CLIR fellowship, I expanded my knowledge of digital projects and came to better appreciate the collaborative relationship between scholars and librarians as co-creators and as disseminators of knowledge. I also used the fellowship period to push my own work forward. I trust that my work will appeal to a broader audience than it would have without the fellowship experience."

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Amanda Watson
University of Virginia

"I was interested in librarianship and information science but not sure whether I wanted to leap into library school immediately after getting my Ph.D. The CLIR fellowship let me explore a wide range of aspects of academic librarianship, try out different roles, and decide what kind of librarian I wanted to become. The fellowship experience also connected me with a network of colleagues and friends in the library and digital humanities fields. Their excitement and imagination were contagious. I’m now a research and instruction librarian with an MSLIS, a position I doubt I’d have without the experiences and contacts from my year as a postdoctoral fellow."

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Lori Jahnke
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

My time as a CLIR Fellow helped me broaden my perspective on the challenges facing higher education, especially in the areas of scholarly communications, research data curation, and emerging technologies. I also had numerous opportunities for professional growth through my work on the Medical Heritage Library (www.medicalheritage.org), which helped me develop skills in project management and planning, grant writing, digitization, and outreach. I feel fortunate to have been immersed in such a rich environment that has helped me become a well-rounded professional and a better scholar.

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