October 17, 2003

Turning Ph.D.'s into Librarians

By MARY DILLON JOHNSON

A new fellowship program opens an alternate route to careers in academic libraries

Last spring, the Yale University Library and my office of graduate-career services sponsored a symposium, "How To Do Things With Books: Academic Careers in University Libraries." With modest expectations for attendance, we were all stunned by the overflow crowd that came from Yale as well as from universities and libraries in New York and Boston on a rainy Friday afternoon.

In a field that isn't

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