Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program (CEP) Coordinating Committee has selected 19 fellows to participate in the third and final year of this competitive fellowship program.

The ARL Career Enhancement Program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and ARL member libraries, gives master of library and information science (MLIS) students from underrepresented groups an opportunity to jump-start their careers in research libraries by providing a robust fellowship experience that includes an internship in an ARL member library. This program reflects the commitment of ARL members to create a diverse research library community that will better meet the challenges of changing demographics in higher education and the emphasis on global perspectives in the academy.

The 2011 Career Enhancement Program fellows are:

Anjali Bhasin, University of Texas at Austin
Felipe Castillo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven Chong, San Jose State University
LeNesha DeBardelaben, Indiana University
Mariaelena de la Rosa, University of Arizona
Hoan-Vu Do, San Jose State University
Valerie Enriquez, Simmons College
Jennifer Garrett, University of British Columbia
Don Jason, Kent State University
Charlene Johnson, North Carolina Central University
Kelly Lau, University of British Columbia
Cynthia Orozco, San Jose State University
Holly Nguyan, San Jose State University
Karla Nielsen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joung Park, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ashley Rayner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Denise Zacker, University of South Florida
Shirley Zhao, Long Island University
Yanjuan Zou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Career Enhancement Program has four main components: a six- to twelve-week internship experience in an ARL library, mentoring by a professional librarian at the host institution, participation in the ARL Leadership Symposium, and career placement assistance. The host institutions for the internships are:

University of Arizona
University of California, San Diego
Columbia University
University of Kentucky
National Library of Medicine
University of Michigan
North Carolina State University
University of Washington

For more information about the ARL Career Enhancement Program, see http://www.arl.org/diversity/cep/ .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/ .

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