Council on Library and Information Resources 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 library 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.

Goals

Leadership - To build leadership capacity for cultural heritage, higher education, and public service through establishing cohort unity, community building, and mutual support

Awareness - To broaden awareness of current economic, technical, professional, and social changes impacting cultural heritage, higher education, governments, and nonprofits.

Changing Roles - To understand the changing roles of librarians, curators, researchers, and other subject specialists through direct, sustained contact with groundbreaking projects at partner organizations

Emerging Scholars - To introduce participants to the working cultures of partner organizations, with a special focus on data curation, management, and sharing

Relevant Resources - To provide fellows with relevant resources for further study, so that each can begin to build careers in cultural heritage, higher education, or allied domains.

SCHOLARS

BENEFITS

• Participate in an intensive training program consisting of monthly workshops and in-person seminars.
• Receive US$3,000 a year for research, travel, and development
• Attend the DLF Forum each year of the program.
• Join an active community of alumni working in various locations and contexts.
• Opportunities to participate in research, publication, or other activities of broad interest among fellows and alums.
• A place in a unique and mutually supportive program designed to make long-term, meaningful impacts on how knowledge is created and shared.