Yale University Library offers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to a Humanities Ph.D. with teaching experience and a background in history, languages or literature, art history, area studies, or cultural or religious studies. In this one-year fellowship, the Fellow will help develop a new approach to the Library's support for teaching and learning. Depending on his or her subject area, the Fellow will also work with faculty and library specialists in a particular subject, helping to tease out the potential for innovative learning support, based on Yale's extraordinarily rich and deep collections.

During the past two years, in one particular project, the Library has worked with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale and several faculty members to create sets of digitized materials for undergraduate courses based on Yale collections. Together we have also created methods of assessment that test the impact of this approach on the learning experience of students. (For details of this program to date, see http://www.library.yale.edu/eli.) Meanwhile, Yale is undertaking comprehensive changes in the undergraduate curriculum, building on the Report on Yale College Education published in April 2003. The Library supports these innovations through a dynamic program of interaction with faculty. We now seek a talented postdoctoral fellow to engage with us in extending this work to a wider range and greater number of departments, supporting changes in the curriculum at Yale. There are great opportunities for creative work with the collections and engagement with the teaching and learning process, at an exciting time for Yale.

The person appointed will work closely with librarians, faculty members and staff of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, creating new teaching resources based on the Library's collections. In addition to participating in the "common experience" provided under the terms of the CLIR program, the Fellow will also receive support from a series of seminars and other learning opportunities in librarianship, offered either on the Yale campus or at nearby Schools of Library and Information Science, or both. Yale University Library encourages graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to explore the rewarding possibilities of a career in academic libraries. The work of the Fellow appointed to this position may be considered eligible for credit toward professional library qualifications.

Preference will be given to candidates who have experience of teaching and assessing undergraduates, and who have used digital resources in teaching.

Salary and benefits: Salary will be $42,000 for the year, with university benefits. A travel allowance will be included.

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