Exchange Program

The HBCU Library Alliance recently received $20,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to host a pilot exchange program for five associate-level librarians from the HBCU Leadership Program to spend two weeks at an Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) during the summer of 2006. The program also includes a site visit by the participating ASERL library dean to the HBCU library prior to the two-week exchange. The goals are to provide the HBCU librarians with an opportunity to address a specific issue of strategic importance to their library with the assistance and expertise of ASERL library leaders, and to foster additional collaboration between ASERL and HBCU libraries.

Evelyn Council Fayetteville State University ASERL Host: University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Sharlene Harris University of the Virgin Islands ASERL Host: College of William and Mary
Iyanna Sims North Carolina A&T University ASERL Host: Wake Forest University
Janet Walsh Fisk University ASERL Host: University of Kentucky
Brenda Wright Florida A&M University ASERL Host: University of Louisville