IOP Publishing (IOPP) featured Michael Brewer, Senior Information Resources Officer, in their August newsletter. IOPP is a "society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community."

“I had just successfully finished my Ph.D. comps and was beginning work on a dissertation on Soviet Cinema. Concurrently, my wife was pregnant with our second child, and, with the recent collapse of the Soviet Union, I was seeing many of the same contemporary Russian scholars I was reading and citing in my work beginning to fill a diminishing number of US tenure-track positions. 

The paltry prospects for landing a tenure-track job, the daunting task of finishing and defending a dissertation, and the pressure to provide for my family all steered me toward a career in librarianship. 25+ years later, I am so happy that it did.”

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