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How to Do Things with Books: Academic Careers in University Libraries
Friday April 11th, 2-3:30pm
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall
Yale University
130 Wall Street
Reception to Follow.
Join us for a symposium about the wide variety of career opportunities within university libraries, co-sponsored by Yale University Library and Graduate Career Services. The US currently faces a national shortage of academic librarians that threatens to become a crisis before long. Six panelists, all PhDs, will discuss their work, their career satisfactionresearch, teaching, publishing, travel, professional mobilityand how the degree can facilitate a move to academic librarianship. The availability of funds for internships and career opportunities within the Yale University Library system and beyond will feature in the discussion.
The speakers include:
- Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, Yale University
- Vincent Giroud, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library, Yale University
- Katherine Haskins, Director of the Arts Library, Yale University
- Gordon Turnbull, General Editor of Yale Boswell Editions, Yale University
- Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University
- Todd Gilman, Librarian for Literature in English, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
Advance web registration is encouraged but not required.
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