During the summer of of 1997, the Search Committee selected Ethelene Whitmire, a doctoral candidate in higher education at the University of Michigan. She wanted to take advantage of our program in order to get practical professional library experience in an academic library. Ms. Whitmire chose three different experiences at Yale, spending eight months in each library unit. In her first assignment Ms. Whitmire worked with the Associate University Librarian responsible for reader services, who was interested in assessing, evaluating, and identifying areas for improvement in Sterling Memorial Library's reference and instructional services. Her second eight months were spent in the Kline Science Library as a reference librarian, and her third eight months in the Social Science Library and Government Documents and Information Center. She has been involved in numerous library-wide, campus, community, and national activities, including being awarded two library SCOPA grants and publishing articles. Upon completion of her term, Ms. Whitmire accepted a teaching position in the library science program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.