Do you know a promising young librarian from a developing country who would be interested in a career-development opportunity here in the U.S.? Encourage the person to apply for a spot in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program. Up to five people are selected each year. The program lasts for four weeks and is centered around OCLC’s headquarters, which is located in Dublin, Ohio. Fellows will have the opportunity to learn about issues affecting librarianship on a global level, particularly library operations and management, information technology, and global cooperative librarianship. Activities will include meeting with leaders in the field and touring a number of library organizations (including OCLC) and cultural-heritage institutions. Participants will also give presentations on issues affecting libraries in their home countries and will devise practical solutions to the major challenges currently facing libraries around the world. The underlying goal of the program is for participants to be able to take what they have learned and apply it to their own career growth and to the issues facing libraries and librarianship in their own countries.
In addition to being from an eligible country, applicants must have earned a degree in library and information science within the past five years and have between three and eight years of professional experience. For more information about the program, and to view a video of this past year’s participants describing their experiences as Fellows, click here. The deadline to apply is this Friday, February 12.