(via Erica Lake, Network of the National Library of Medicine – Region 6)
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 valuable project experience in areas that aid their future career. Associate Fellow projects have led to peer-review publications and to services that became a part of the services and products of NLM.
Appointment Length
This appointment is a one-year research appointment starting July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024. The 2023 – 2024 Associate Fellowship Program year will be virtual. Program hours will be 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT.
Participant Benefits
- Annual stipend of $61,947
- Health Insurance Supplement – Health Insurance Supplement – The program offers a stipend for participants to purchase health insurance through a group health insurance plan via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). Alternatively, participants may choose to hold outside insurance. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Participants are eligible to purchase health insurance through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE).
- Training and Travel Allowance that can be used for attendance at local and national conferences and other relevant training materials as determined by NLM and ORISE.
Apply here.
The deadline is Friday, January 27, 2023, at 10:59 PM CDT.
More about NLM
NLM is committed to recruiting and developing a workforce that is inclusive of a broad range of underrepresented people, including racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. NLM’s commitment to workforce diversity extends to advocating for diversity of thought and plurality of methods. A commitment to diversity is grounded in the belief that full participation of a diverse workforce improves team performance, engendering robust array of knowledge representations as well as culturally appropriate means of supporting discovery and delivering health information.
This program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM). Participants do not become employees of NIH, NLM, ORAU, ORISE, DOE, or any other agency, and there are no employment-related benefits.