Jennifer Garcon: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Co-Faculty
Jennifer Garcon, digital scholarship librarian at the Penn Libraries, has been appointed co-faculty for the Council on Library and Information Resources’ (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The program offers recent PhD graduates the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities. Fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among collections, educational technologies, and current research. Dr. Garcon was a 2018 CLIR Bollinger Fellow in Public and Community Data Curation. She works to develop sustainable models and scalable infrastructures for the care of digital special collections. She also helps establish and maintain partnerships and collaborations with the intent to create new knowledge and preserve historical materials produced and published beyond the academy.