ACH Employment Committee Report - June 2005

The Committee has endeavored to keep the ACH jobs database up to date. We undertook some research last year to locate additional resources for finding out about open positions in our discipline. The result of our survey indicated that most sources of relevant information are too broad to be of significant use to the Committee, and so we have continued to rely on Humanist and various direct contacts with prospective employers.

The ACH Employment Committee renewed calls this year for participation in the mentoring program. The mentoring program currently has twenty-two registered mentors, with good representation from academic departments, libraries, and industry. We are currently serving eight mentees. Stephen Ramsay, chair of the committee, has created a database for matching mentors to mentees, and will make the database available to subsequent chairs.

We continue to work with the mentoring pool as a group, and we have established some group activities for job seekers at this year's ACH/ALLC conference in Victoria.

Stephen Ramsay