Meeting, photo by Audrey Grace/ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is accepting applications for the 2025 cohort of the Intensive Learning Program (ILP). The ILP is an eight-month hybrid experience that explores operational aspects of senior leader portfolios in research libraries and archives as well as responsibilities related to managing those portfolios. The ILP strengthens strategic thinking and decision-making skills to ensure effective leadership of research libraries in a time of rapid, continuous change.
Program Components
The Intensive Learning Program components include:
- Site Visit: Fellows will attend a one-day, in-person site visit at a host institution.
- Monthly Virtual Sessions: Fellows will participate in monthly educational sessions.
- Self-Assessments and Career Coaching: Each fellow will complete self-assessments, coupled with career-coaching sessions.
- Learning Summit: Fellows will attend an in-person learning summit.
- ARL Association Meeting: Fellows will attend an ARL Association Meeting.
Eligibility
To be eligible to participate in the Intensive Learning Program, you must be an emerging senior leader of a library, archive, and/or library system:
- Emerging is meant to describe having served in your current position for approximately three years or less.
- Titles may vary as administrative structures differ by institutions. Examples include associate & assistant directors/deans/university librarians.
- In most cases, senior leaders will report directly to an institution’s executive leader.
- Responsibilities should include direct contributions to the oversight of the institution and informing high-level, broad strategies and organizational management.
To Apply
All applicants are required to submit the application form, which includes four brief writing prompts, and confirmation of institutional support by the institution’s executive leader. The application deadline is Wednesday, November 13, 2024. For more details on the application process, see the ARL website.
More Information
ARL will host an informational session on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 3:00–4:00 p.m. eastern daylight time, to share more about the ILP and answer questions. A session recording will be posted.
Join Informational Zoom Session
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82942892981?pwd=k48ja0zuZnulGa4JrqqOaQmTAUXDtn.1
Meeting ID: 829 4289 2981
Passcode: 654056
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbFH3cKRLO
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
