The CLIR Fellowship Course, 2004-2005

Participants in the fellowship first attended a two-week seminar at Bryn Mawr College. The seminar, led by CIO and Professor of History Elliott Shore of Bryn Mawr, was designed to introduce the fellows to major issues challenging and changing the profession of librarianship. [More details]

Following the seminar the fellows have come together for one two-hour synchronous session each month, as well as contributing to non-synchronous discussion boards. Both types of activities have been facilitated by the LEEP distance learning program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Topics have included:

• Changing Roles in Libraries (with Alison Cook-Sather, September)
• Successful Collaboration and Career Development (with Susan Perry, October)
• Institutional Repositories (with Clifford Lynch, November)
• Challenges of Cataloging / The Public and Academic Library Worlds (with Sandy Berman and Gary Strong, December)
• Academic Publishing / CLIR (with Michael Keller and Nancy Davenport, January)
• Library Architecture (with Michael Lauber and Carole Wedge, February)
• The Changing Face of Reference (with Judy Luther, March)