Cindy A. Gruwell

"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 New Graduate Experience: Post-MLS Residency Programs and Early Career Librarianship is a much-needed text that will compliment 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"--