For immediate release:
December 1, 2009

For more information, contact:
Mark A. Puente
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
mpuente@arl.org

2010 ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellows Selected

Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program Coordinating Committee has selected 17 fellows to participate in the second year of this competitive fellowship program.

The ARL Career Enhancement Program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ARL member libraries, gives MLIS students from underrepresented groups an opportunity to jump-start their careers in research libraries by providing a robust fellowship experience that includes an internship in an ARL member library. This program reflects the commitment of ARL members to create a diverse research library community that will better meet the challenges of changing demographics in higher education and the emphasis on global perspectives in the academy.

The 2009 Career Enhancement Program fellows are:

Aimee Babcock-Ellis, University of Maryland at College Park
Melissa Chance, University of Western Ontario
Bertha Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jorge Espinosa, McGill University
Youngmie Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aaisha Haykal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harrison Inefuku, University of British Columbia
Heather James, University at Albany, SUNY
Eugenia Kim, University at Albany, SUNY
Jennifer Lanzing, Florida State University
Brian Leaf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yasmin Mathew, Pratt Institute
Zoya Nazari, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Kim Okahara, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jun Qian, University of Texas at Austin
Joni Savage, San Jose State University
Kimberly Trinh-Sy, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

The Career Enhancement Program has four main components: a six- to twelve-week internship experience in an ARL library, mentoring by a professional librarian at the host institution, participation in the ARL Leadership Symposium, and career placement assistance. The host institutions for the internships are:


University of Arizona
University of California, San Diego
Columbia University
University of Kentucky
National Library of Medicine
North Carolina State University
University of Washington

For more information about the ARL Career Enhancement Program, see http://www.arl.org/diversity/cep/.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.