Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., program head of the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, has been selected to serve as a mentor for early career and emerging scholars and librarians as well as those considering alt-ac, (alternative-academic) for Ph.D.s exploring career trajectories outside of tradition tenure-track professorships.
Smith is serving as a mentor for both the Middle East Librarians Association and the Renaissance Society of America, and has been assigned a mentee from each organization at this time.