The Process of Discovery - The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy

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The Process of Discovery explores how scholarly discovery unfolds across time, distance, and technology, using John Keats’s Homer analogy to frame new knowledge as a multilayered conversation. The collection presents collaborative essays on the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, emphasizing postdoctoral pedagogy, research data management, library innovation, and evolving academic collaboration. It highlights how fellows develop methodologies and professional expertise to sustain and extend valuable information for higher education.

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Pages142

Reading Time5 h 58 min

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Foreword

About this Publication

A Brief History of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2004-the present)

Postdoctoral Pedagogy

The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship 10th Anniversary Survey

Collaboration in the Evolving Academy: Experiences from the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Changing and Expanding Libraries: Exhibitions, Institutional Repositories, and the Future of Academia

Libraries and the Research Data Management Landscape

Toward a Trackless Future: Moving beyond “Alt-Ac” and “Post-Ac”

Where Next?

Appendix 1: Fellowship Host Institutions, 2004-2015

Appendix 2: Contributors to the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Educational Program, 2004-2015

About the Authors

The Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy John C. Maclachlan, Elizabeth A. Waraksa, and Christa Williford, editors September 2015 CounCil on library and information resourCes ISBN 978-1-932326-52-9 CLIR Publication No. 167 Published by: Council on Library and Information Resources 1707 L Street NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036 Web site at [http://www.clir.org](http://www.clir.org) Copyright © 2015 by Council on Library and Information Resources. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Cover illustration: Courtesy of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.“Feuer Beuch” manuscript. 1584. LJS 442, Smith Folio, TP272 .A7 1625, ms. Codex 109. For more on the story of this illustration, see [https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/a-rocket-cat-early-modern-explosives-treatises-at-penn/](https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/a-rocket-cat-early-modern-explosives-treatises-at-penn/) Contents Foreword Charles Henry .........................................................................................................iv About this Publication John C. Maclachlan, Elizabeth A. Waraksa, and Christa Williford ......................... 1 A Brief History of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2004-the present) Elizabeth A. Waraksa................................................................................................4 Postdoctoral Pedagogy Lauren Coats and Elliott Shore .............................................................................. 14 The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship 10th Anniversary Survey Jason J. Brodeur, John C. Maclachlan, and Jennifer M. Parrott ............................27 Collaboration in the Evolving Academy: Experiences from the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Tamsyn Rose-Steel, Inna Kouper, Jennifer M. Parrott, and Katie Rawson ...........35 Changing and Expanding Libraries: Exhibitions, Institutional Repositories, and the Future of Academia Amy Chen, Sarah Pickle, and Heather Waldroup.................................................. 62 Libraries and the Research Data Management Landscape Jodi Reeves Flores, Jason J. Brodeur, Morgan G. Daniels, Natsuko Nicholls, and Ece Turnator...................................................................... 82 Toward a Trackless Future: Moving beyond “Alt-Ac” and “Post-Ac”Meridith Beck Sayre, Marta Brunner, Brian Croxall, and Emily McGinn ........ 103 Where Next? Christa Williford .................................................................................................. 124 Appendix 1: Fellowship Host Institutions, 2004-2015 ........................................... 127 Appendix 2: Contributors to the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Educational Program, 2004-2015..................................................................................................... 128 About the Authors....................................................................................................... 130 Foreword Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—Silent, upon a peak in Darien. John Keats,“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” D iscovery is a complex venture. Think about the sweep of time, internal and external space, and the role of technology in Keats’s transformative discovery of the poet Homer. The formulation of the power and insight derived from reading Homer—a conceptual revelation within the mind of Keats—is expressed analogously as a real world observer who first sees a new planet or as explorers standing on a mountain top beholding for the first time the vast stretch of the Pacific Ocean, previously unknown to Eur

FAQs

What main theme ties the essays together in this volume?

The volume centers on “discovery” as a complex process of obtaining new knowledge, developing insight, and uncovering what was previously unknown or invisible, often mediated by the technology of the era.

How does the program connect discovery to higher education and professional expertise?

Essays describe how fellows gather, analyze, and share knowledge within emerging digital methodologies, creating new professional roles and responsibilities in scholarly communication and pedagogy.

Which areas of change in libraries and academia are discussed?

The contents address digital tools and resources, evolving collaboration in the academy, expanding library practices, and research data management, including future directions beyond “Alt-Ac” and “Post-Ac.”

Oct 15, 2026

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