NLM Recruiting for Associate Fellows 2023-2024

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) seeks early and second-career librarians within five years of graduation interested in advancing equitable and innovative futures for biomedical libraries to participate in a one-year fellowship that fosters the development of librarians seeking to lead in medical or health sciences libraries. What will you do? As a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow, you will: Select and manage projects ranging from operations to research and development, project opportunities are in data and open science, vocabularies and ontologies, scholarly communication, user engagement, and training Grow professionally and learn in a cohort, participating in a formal curriculum taught by staff experts Develop skills in data science (analysis, visualization) Develop foundations in leadership (presenting, network building) Receive support from experienced mentors Attend a professional conference and a one-week practicum at a health sciences library The NLM Associate Fellowship Program (AFP) offers a series of staff-taught sessions in library operations, research and development, intramural and extramural research, development, the lifecycle of NLM web-based products and services, and the NLM engagement and education program. Associate Fellows develop a national and international perspective of the NLM role in health science and biomedical science. Associate Fellows choose projects to collaborate on and complete with NLM staff allowing them to gain valua...
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