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Committee on Recruitment to the Profession of Academic Librarianship
Primary Responsibilities
- Oversee the Provost Fellowship in the Libraries
- Coordinate internships and practica in the Libraries
Charge
- Encourage prospective and current students of CU-Boulder and other Colorado institutions to consider the profession of academic librarianship as a career;
- Promote and coordinate the Provost's Fellowship Program in conjunction with the Graduate Teacher Program;
- Create and manage a clearinghouse to promote and coordinate internship placements in CU-Boulder Libraries for current MLIS students;
- Work with Campus Relations and others to create and maintain digital content, exhibits, displays, seminars, etc. for promoting academic librarianship as a career;
- Explore opportunities for recruitment, teaching, and other forms of partnership with the University of Denver's Program in Library and Information Science and other Library and Information Science Programs;
- Promote academic librarianship through CU-Boulder's Career Services Office;
- Develop a recruitment strategy with Student Supervisors in the University Libraries (e.g. social functions that involve opportunities to discuss careers with student employees);
- Work with the Dean to attract fiscal support for graduate student employees and interns who may in turn decide to pursue a career in the profession.
Committee Members
- Chair: Alexander Watkins, Art & Architecture Librarian
- Amanda Brown, Special Collections Instruction Librarian
- Andrew Johnson, Metadata Librarian
- Xiang Li, Chinese & Asian Studies Librarian
- Natalia Tingle, Business Librarian

