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CLIR Report Reviewing First Decade of CLIR
Postdoctorial F
It's rare to see in-depth historical and critical review of
important programs within our community, and the Council on Library
and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellowships have certainly been an
extremely important innovation, so I'm delighted to share the
announcement of this recent study (reproduced below).
The CLIR fellows have been ongoing guests at our CNI membership
meetings (as part of CNI's commitment to community leadership
development), and so many readers of this list will have likely
encountered some of the outstanding participants in this program at
our meetings in recent years.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Washington, DC, September 10, 2015- A new report from the
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) celebrates the
first decade of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program by bringing
together 20 past and present CLIR fellows to share their thoughts on
their experiences and, more broadly, the direction of academia. The
report presents a series of collaboratively written essays in a volume
titled The
Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the
Future of the Academy.
"The process of discovery-obtaining new knowledge, developing
insight, uncovering what was previously unknown or invisible: the wild
surmise of seeing clearly what had been incoherent, fragmented, or
disjunctive-is a salient theme of each essay," writes CLIR
President Charles Henry in the report's foreword. "Each essay is a
look into the working conditions associated with creating a new
profession of expertise and responsibilities in response to emerging
forms of scholarly communication and pedagogy."
The collection represents the coalescence of ideas and viewpoints
from multiple authors participating in collaborative writing groups
over several months. The results of this effort include the essays
"Collaboration in the Evolving Academy: Experiences from the CLIR
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program"; "Changing and Expanding
Libraries: Exhibitions, Institutional Repositories, and the Future of
Academia"; "Libraries and the Research Data Management
Landscape"; and "Toward a Trackless Future: Moving beyond 'Alt-Ac'
and 'Post-Ac'." Collectively, these four pieces explore key
themes that arose from a comprehensive survey of program participants
and alumni conducted in 2014. Findings from the survey project, led by
former fellows John Maclachlan, Jason Brodeur, and Jennifer Parrott,
are included in the collection. Also included are an account of the
program's history, contributed by Elizabeth Waraksa, and an
exploration of the goals that inform the program's pedagogy,
coauthored by longtime leaders of the fellowship's educational
activities Elliott Shore and Lauren Coats.
The collaborative writing process was conceived and led by
Maclachlan, of McMaster University, and managed by Waraksa, an
independent consultant, with the support of CLIR Director of Research
and Assessment Christa Williford. The three also serve as the
volume's editors.
Appendices to the volume list CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship host
institutions, 2004-2014, and name individual professionals who have
contributed to the program over its history.
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