Following the success of our Spring 2006 term internship, the University Library is offering internships for the fall and spring semesters in the academic year 2007-08. A stipend of $10,000 is offered each term to a Yale graduate student who has completed the coursework for the PhD, working in a department of the library system that may be appropriate to the student's own academic interests. The person appointed will be expected to work for twenty hours per week. For students in a teaching year, this position may substitute for one of two semesters of teaching, with the approval of the DGS. For all others, it is expected to replace rather than supplement any teaching fellowship. The internship is a relatively new venture on the part of the Library, designed to encourage Yale graduate students to consider the rewarding possibilities of a future career in academic libraries. It is part of a wider, nationwide program that will also include postdoctoral fellowships in the future. The symposium "How to do things with books: careers in academic libraries", held in Sterling Memorial Library in April 2003, launched this initiative at Yale, and since then the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has launched its national program.

Students who are interested in applying for the internship should write to Diane Y. Turner, Associate University Librarian for Human Resources, Staff Training and Security, fax: (203) 432-1806; email to hrlibrary@yale.edu, giving details of their doctoral work, attaching a short statement about why they would like to work in the library and in which department, naming two referees and stating whether interested in one or two semesters. Library staff will be glad to talk with anyone who wishes to explore the possibilities before submitting documentation. In certain circumstances, the library may be able to offer the successful candidate up to ten hours a week, paid pro rata on an hourly rate in the second half of the fall semester, as preparation for the full internship. Application deadline is April 13th, 2007.

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