Transcript mm08fall-seamans - Association of Research Libraries

Recruiting for the 21st
Century Research Library
A Concurrent Session Organized By
2007 -2008 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows
Kate Oliver, Wendy Scott
Nancy Seamans, Mary Ann Mavrinac, Martha Whitehead
153rd ARL Membership Meeting
October 16, 2008
Abstract
Recruitment of staff with skills needed for the
21st century research library is a high priority
for library leaders. To enlist the talent we need
for the emerging digital knowledge
environment, we may need to expand our
recruitment horizon beyond innovative LIS
graduate programs to also include disciplinespecific graduate programs, such as digital
humanities or business informatics.
Goal: Recruit talent and skills to meet the needs of the digital
knowledge environment of the 21 century research library.
Statement of Need: Student skills and competencies required
include familiar or comfortable with:
•Digital content, exchange, workflow
•Interactive and team-based research and teaching
•Multi- and inter-disciplinary endeavors
•Dynamic, evolving
•Process over end-product
Intended Audience: Targeted domain specific graduate
students and LIS programs.
Project Activities: Recruit a diverse group graduate students
in targeted domains
Intended Outcomes: Increased number of library
professionals, increase capacity of research library to contribute to
the academic enterprise
Project Design - North Carolina State University will be the
lead grant applicant. Partners in the program will be ARL 2007-08
Research Library Leadership Fellows and ten North American
graduate programs.
Activities - Partner with graduate program deans; make
presentations to graduate students; select student participants
based; provide summer internships, mentoring
Timeframe - Three-year time span, from 2009 through 2011
Measurables
Engagement of a diverse group of graduate students demonstrated
by:
•Attendance at presentations
•Course selection relevant to research library
•Application for summer internship
•Selection for internship in host research libraries
•Job placement in research libraries
Your comments, thoughts
Sustainability?
Specific graduate programs to target?
Subject domains?
LIS?
Anything else?