The New Graduate Experience: Post-MLS Residency Programs and Early Career Librarianship

This book contains invaluable feedback from residency program coordinators and current and former library residents that will benefit program managers, recent graduates and early career librarians, and students of library and information science.

The effective training of individuals in the new wave of library professionals who will replace those of the outgoing baby boomer generation is essential to the future success of libraries. Residency programs will undoubtedly serve as the backbone of this transition process.

The New Graduate Experience: Post-MLS Residency Programs and Early Career Librarianship is a much-needed text that will complement the limited, existing publications on library residency programs, serving to complete the record of residency program activity over a series of successive decades, management strategies from program coordinators at different institutions, and first-hand accounts of residents. This book includes the contributions of authors from a diverse group of ARL libraries, including early career librarians who describe their experiences in library school and joining the professional workplace, and program coordinators who detail how they implemented and managed their programs. Information on nursing residency programs is also included, providing different conceptual models for accelerated development of new librarians.

Includes contributions from more than 20 authors representing 13 different residency programs across the United States as well as one from Canada

Provides a variety of useful materials including vacancy announcements, survey instruments, interview scripts, and mentor criteria forms

Includes bibliographic reference lists within each chapter