CLIR

CLIR

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers recent Ph.D. graduates the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among collections, educational technologies, and current research. Host institutions benefit from fellows’ field-specific expertise by gaining insights into their collections’ potential uses and users, scholarly information behaviors, and current teaching and learning practices. CLIR solicits and facilitates the host and fellowship application processes. Fellows are then hired directly by host institutions.

CLIR is taking time in 2020 and 2021 to support our current fellowship cohorts and is not currently planning to accept applications for a 2021 cohort. Once we have the next fellowship cohort plans confirmed, we will post all eligibility requirements, etc. on the program webpages. Potential host institutions and fellows may sign up for CLIR’s Programs & Grants Mailing List to keep up to date on all our program announcements and deadlines.

Core Goals

Leadership

To build leadership capacity for libraries and higher education through establishing cohort unity, community building, and mutual support

Awareness

To broaden awareness of financial, technical, professional, and social changes in higher education in libraries and the academy

Changing Roles

To understand the changing roles of libraries, campus IT, and other research support units through direct, sustained contact with on-the-ground change

Emerging Scholars

To introduce new scholars to language and culture related to libraries and information science, with a special focus on research data curation/data management

Relevant Resources

To provide fellows with relevant resources for further study, so that each can begin to build careers as effective “change agents” in higher education or allied domains
215

PhDs

93

Host Institutions

191

Postdocs in the US

24

Postdocs in Canada and Overseas