![Joan Petit’s first-year information science graduate students at Jimma University in Ethiopia. Photo: Joan Petit.](https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fulbright-students.jpg)
An American Librarian Abroad
September 22, 2017Over the past year, while on sabbatical from my position at Portland (Oreg.) State University Library, I had the privilege of serving as a Fulbright Scholar in the department of information science at Jimma University in Jimma, Ethiopia. I had contacted a few different Ethiopian universities hoping to garner an invitation to join their faculty, … Continue reading An American Librarian Abroad