awaiting in university libraries
Responding to a critical national shortage of academic librarians, the Yale Library and the University's Office of Graduate Career Services are sponsoring a symposium on Friday, April 11, to inform graduate students in the humanities about professional opportunities in university and research library systems.
According to a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a decrease in the number of professionals seeking positions in academic libraries threatens to become a crisis. Experts say that the aging population of professional librarians will create further vacancies in the field as they retire in the not-so-distant future. In 2000, the American Library Asssociation computed the average age of its roughly 65,000 members at 49. A survey in 2000 conducted by Library Journal showed that 40% of library directors expected to retire within nine years; 68%, within 14 years.
Titled "How to Do Things with Books: Academic Careers in University Libraries," the Yale event has two main goals, say sponsors: "maintaining excellent service to students, faculty and other researchers" and raising the awareness of graduate students in the humanities about other rewarding professions beside teaching.
The availability of funds for internships and career opportunities within the Yale Library system and beyond will be discussed.
The speakers at the symposium -- all from Yale -- will also inform by their own example: They are all professional librarians and library administrators who hold Ph.D.'s in the humanities.
The roster includes University Librarian Alice Prochaska, who heads Yale's library system; Vincent Giroud, curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Katherine Haskins, director of the Arts Library; Gordon Turnbull, general editor of the Yale Boswell Editions; Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English; and Todd Gilman, librarian for literature in English, Sterling Memorial Library.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place 2-3:30 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 130 Wall St. A reception will follow.
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