Apply for a Sewell "Librarian Learning Partnership"

From the Sewell Fund website:

The goal of The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is to increase librarians’ identification with medical and health care professionals. Medicine for the 21st Century underlines the key role of information resources in raising the quality of health care.(1) Librarians experienced in managing knowledge and teaching informatics can supply quality information by becoming ongoing members of the health care team. Immersion in the health care environment is necessary for librarians to understand how health care professionals solve problems individually and through consensus.

Learning Partnerships: Toward New Information Perspectives "Wonderful program. There are not enough such immersion opportunities for librarians."
– Neil Rambo, UW Health Sciences Libraries, 9/22/06

The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund plans to fund two, paid, 12-month, Learning Partnerships placing experienced librarians/informationists within leading health care and/or research organizations for the purpose of both partners gaining a greater understanding of how best information sciences can be effectively applied in each environment.

We are currently soliciting applications for librarians/informationists for our 2009/2010 Learning Partnerships. Host organizations will present a learning environment, a series of activities, and access to organizational leaders which will allow the librarian/informationist to more fully understand the nature of the organization’s work, its decision-making processes, the clients served and the health care issues addressed. The librarian/informationist will participate in team settings designed to utilize their skills and knowledge in non-traditional ways. Immersion is the goal and expanded knowledge the anticipated result for both partners. To read about past Learning Partnerships, click here.

Key 2009/2010 Learning Partnership Dates:
Librarian Applications Available: February 2009
Librarian Applications Due: April 15, 2009
2009/2010 Recipients Announced: Early June 2009