The Kenlee Ray Library & Archives Fellows program allows students to research librarianship, both at Earlham and at other types of libraries. Learn about multiple aspects of librarianship through regional library site visits and networking with Earlham Alumni working as librarians. You will develop skills in archival research and create a public display based on your findings. Participants will read about the intellectual framework and ethics behind librarianship and engage in discussions of the readings & media with librarians. You’ll research current topics in librarianship, such as how librarians are defending intellectual freedom by battling efforts to ban books. You will create a project highlighting your research that you will share with other participants and librarians.
Program Outcomes:
Describe different career paths within librarianship, and where these paths align with their interests
Create a public project or display integrating what they’ve learned about archival research and librarianship
Communicate with professionals for the purpose of networking
Discuss contemporary issues in library work, including ethics and equity
What you'll do:
Project work: Hands-on projects that arise from student interests and library staff needs
Readings & Discussion: Reflection & Conversation with a librarian or archivist about an assigned reading or media on librarianship
Alumni Engagement: Meetings with alumni in library, archives, and related positions
Reviewing types of libraries and library positions, and analyzing open job ads
Library site visits
This program is generously funded by Kenlee Ray, who attended Earlham in 1967. Kenlee Ray led a distinguished career at the World Bank, where she retired as Senior Information Officer.
Earlham students can apply through Handshake. Look for "Summer Collaborative Research."
Deadline to apply - February 16
Program dates: May 21 - June 13
Students are provided stipends at $100 per day for full-time employment. (Taxable)
Saturdays, Sundays, and Memorial Day (Monday, May 26th) are unpaid days off.
Students must cover their own cost-of-living expenses.
Students must be rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Seniors graduating before the project starts are not eligible.
From left to right: Amy Bryant (instructor), Diana Santiago-Cruz, Tamarianna Mason, Quinn Doden,
Julia Muse (instructor), Blaise Rzezsut, Oona Giebel, Jenny Freed (instructor), Mary Bogue (instructor).
Photo taken in the Adler Planetarium Special Collections, Chicago, Illinois.
2016 students at Morrisson Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana.
2013 - Sarah Brown-Anson, Brian Forman
2014 - Colin Andrews, Ann MacNamara
2015 - Aaron Falsetto, Michael Grathwohl
2016 - Mollie Goldblum, William Henry, Lara Miller, Allison Muterspaw, Sadie Zabawa
2017 - Sarah Spodek
2018 - Minda Dettman, Jade Pendleton
2019 - Leanne Cheong, Yasmin Dasilva, Anh Nguyen, Victoria Trezona
2020 - Sydney Ameluxen, Lee Tran, Simon Trubek-Pence, Anyu Zhang
2021 - Yazid Barhoush, Courtney Bassett, Myrrh Grossman, Fiona Kelly, Sumayyah Mumford
2022 - Rebecca Fischer, Kate Neal
2023 - Quinn Doden, Oona Giebel, Tamarianna Mason, Blaise Rzeszut, Diana Santiago-Cruz
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