Month: March 2011

Current News: Twitter Updates for 3/24/11

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Web Services Librarian at California State University Stanislaus Library

The California State University Stanislaus Library is recruiting a Web Services Librarian. Salary range: $57,060-$72,096.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsibilities include participation as a key member of the Library's technology team, providing leadership and technical expertise to design, develop, and maintain the Library's web presence. In collaboration with Library faculty, coordinates the creation and implementation of web-based user services, including online tutorials, LibGuides, mobile applications, and other emerging technologies. Also responsible for collection development, liaison work with assigned academic departments, and some reference and instruction. Participates in library and university faculty governance. To be recommended for tenure and promotion, Library faculty must demonstrate proficiency in the areas of librarianship; research, scholarship and/or creative activities; and participation in university affairs.

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Cloud Computing Toolkit: Guidance for Outsourcing Information Storage to the Cloud

The Archives & Records Association and the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University have released the Cloud Computing Toolkit: Guidance for Outsourcing Information Storage to the Cloud.

Here's an excerpt:

The toolkit covers four main areas that should be considered when an organisation intends to outsource business processes and information storage into a cloud environment and should help develop a consistent cloud computing strategy as well as requirements for the required cloud service. Each of the four main sections proposes questions that should be taken into consideration by the organisation or that should be addressed to the prospective cloud service provider:

  • Overview of cloud computing – Cloud computing definition, benefits and challenges
  • Preparing for the cloud – Cloud service selection and risk assessment
  • Managing the cloud – Information management, compliance, contract and cost
  • Operating in the cloud – Information security, access and availability

Read more about it at Storing Information in the Cloud: Project Report.

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Web Coordinator/Developer at University of Montana’s Mansfield Library

The University of Montana's Mansfield Library is recruiting a Web Coordinator/Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Position coordinates and manages the Mansfield Libraries Internet/Intranet projects to ensure that the Mansfield Library web and digital environment supports discovery and access for research, learning, and teaching. Also, this position will work with hosted services to integrate a common look and feel to the larger web presence. Duties include, but are not limited to: designing, building, implementing and maintaining the web environment, projects and initiatives for the Library using knowledge of and experience with LAMP applications, related web 2.0 technologies, and the ability to manage projects; developing and maintaining Library web and digital presences using current infrastructure, consisting of Drupal, ContentDM, Omeka, and more; collaborating with library personnel to develop research and learning services in the web environment; providing user support for web related questions and/or problems; assisting library faculty with usability testing; performing site analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of, and as needed, make improvements to the website; supervising students working as web developers; providing the Head of Systems with information on trends and needs of area of expertise; working with IT team member, library faculty and staff, and vendors to analyze new software; participating in integrating functionality of new software with existing products; following and helping devise best practices for delivery of a high-quality web presence; managing ongoing projects and workloads; keeping abreast of emerging technologies related to library digital environments.

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Current News: Twitter Updates for 3/23/11

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Assistant Librarian, Scholarly Communications at University of Wyoming Libraries

The University of Wyoming Libraries are recruiting an Assistant Librarian, Scholarly Communications.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsibilities: Provide outreach and education on scholarly communication issues to the university community. Share expertise and disseminate information about copyright law, fair use, authors’ rights, and privacy issues. Monitor and report on current developments affecting scholarly publishing, particularly open access. Work with the Office of Research as it establishes mechanisms for faculty to preserve data and publish results as required by federal regulation.

Work as part of a cross functional team within the Libraries focusing on collection building, metadata creation, and access issues for digital information. Work with bibliographers to identify and develop electronic scholarship projects to promote global access to UW research. . . . The position reports to the Associate Dean of Libraries.

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Emory University Faculty Council Adopts Statement Supporting Open Access Policy

The Emory University Faculty Council has adopted a statement supporting an open access policy for the university.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

At its March 15 meeting, the Faculty Council unanimously voted to adopt a statement in support of a Universitywide open access policy to enable immediate, unfettered access to Emory faculty authored scholarly articles. This vote expresses the Council's support for the principle of open access as official University policy. It calls for the creation of a digital repository for Emory scholarship, including an "opt-in" approach to faculty participation and a commitment to minimizing administrative burden by "harvesting" Emory faculty work already available in existing repositories. Pending administrative approval of the principle expressed in

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Author’s Guild et al. v. Google Inc. Ruling: Amended Settlement Agreement Denied

Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York has denied the Amended Settlement Agreement for the Author's Guild et al. v. Google Inc. case.

Here's an excerpt from the ruling:

Before the Court is plaintiffs' motion pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for final approval of the proposed settlement of this class action on the terms set forth in the Amended Settlement Agreement (the "ASA"). The question presented is whether the ASA is fair, adequate, and reasonable. I conclude that it is not.

While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many, the ASA would simply go too far. It would permit this class action—which was brought against defendant Google Inc. ("Google") to challenge its scanning of books and display of "snippets" for on-line searching—to implement a forward-looking business arrangement that would grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners. Indeed, the ASA would give Google a significant advantage over competitors, rewarding it for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission, while releasing claims well beyond those presented in the case.

Accordingly, and for the reasons more fully discussed below, the motion for final approval of the ASA is denied. The accompanying motion for attorneys' fees and costs is denied, without prejudice.

Read more about it at "After Rejection, a Rocky Road for Google Settlement"; "GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement"; "Google Books Settlement: Copyright, Congress, and Information Monopolies"; "Google Settlement Is Rejected"; "Inside Judge Chin's Opinion"; "Please Refine Your Search Terms"; and "Publishers Remain Committed to Expanding Online Access to Books and Upholding Copyright Despite Court Decision."

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"The Costs and Potential Benefits of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models"

John W. Houghton has published "The Costs and Potential Benefits of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models" in the latest issue of Information Research.

Here's an excerpt:

The costs and benefits associated with alternative scholarly publishing models demonstrate that research and research communication are major activities and the costs involved are substantial. Our preliminary analysis of the potential benefits of more open access to research findings suggests that returns to research are also substantial and that different scholarly publishing models might make a material difference to the returns realised as well as the costs faced. It seems likely from this preliminary analysis that more open access could have substantial net benefits in the longer term and, while net benefits may be lower during a transitional period they would be likely to be positive for both open access journal publishing and self-archiving alternatives.

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Library Associate I at Rutgers University Libraries

The Rutgers University Libraries are recruiting a Library Associate I.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reports to the RUcore (Rutgers University Community Repository) Collection Manager. Provides coordination for all digital library projects; engages in many digital projects that involve faculty and staff across the university. Coordinates, monitors, and enables all projects to be successfully completed. Maintains a schedule of all digital library projects and consults with the managers of primary collections within the repository—scholarship, research, and special collections/cultural heritage. Assists with project set up and organization, checks that adequate resources such as staffing and equipment are available for each project, and monitors and reports on project progress. Leads individual projects or performs digital tasks as needed for identified projects. These tasks include, but are not limited to, original metadata creation and digitization of analog resources. Supervises student assistants who assist with digital projects and trains other staff in digital collection building tasks such as resource digitization and metadata creation.

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Current News: Twitter Updates for 3/22/11

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Digital Initiatives Coordinator at Portland State University Library

The Portland State University Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Coordinator. Salary range: $40,632-$66,732.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Initiatives Coordinator will provide leadership, project management, and work in the creation, development, and production of digital content associated with the Library's collections and related projects. This innovative, energetic individual will work collaboratively with colleagues to develop and implement policies, procedures, workflows, and metadata standards for the Library's digital collections program; manage assigned digitization projects; and participate in the overall management of digital collections. This position reports to the Associate University Librarian, and is a full-time, 12-month, unclassified, and unranked position. The incumbent will be expected to work collaboratively to build partnerships within the Library and the campus.

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Cornell University Library Will Not Sign E-Resources Licenses with Nondisclosure Clauses

The Cornell University Library has adopted a policy of not signing e-resources licenses with nondisclosure clauses.

Here's an excerpt from the policy:

To promote openness and fairness among libraries licensing scholarly resources, Cornell University Library will not enter into vendor contracts that require nondisclosure of pricing information or other information that does not constitute a trade secret. All new and renewed licenses submitted with nondisclosure clauses will not be signed but henceforth will be referred to the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Special Collections for further negotiation. . . .

It has become apparent to the library community that the anticompetitive conduct engaged in by some publishing firms is in part a result of the inclusion of nondisclosure agreements in contracts.1 As Robert Darnton recently noted, by "keeping the terms secret, … one library cannot negotiate for cheaper rates by citing an advantage obtained by another library."2 For this reason, the International Coalition of Library Consortia's "Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information" states that "Non-disclosure language should not be required for any licensing agreement, particularly language that would preclude library consortia from sharing pricing and other significant terms and conditions with other consortia."3 The more that libraries are able to communicate with one another about vendor offers, the better they are able to weigh the costs and benefits of any individual offer. An open market will result in better licensing terms.

Read more about it at "Cornell U. Library Takes a Stand with Journal Vendors: Prices Will Be Made Public."

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Grants: Second Round of Digging into Data Challenge Announced

The National Endowment for the Humanities and seven international research funders have announced the second round of the Digging into Data Challenge. Grant applications are due by June 16, 2011.

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

The Digging into Data Challenge asks researchers these provocative questions: How can we use advanced computation to change the nature of our research methods? That is, now that the objects of study for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, including books, survey data, economic data, newspapers, music, and other scholarly and scientific resources are being digitized at a huge scale, how does this change the very nature of our research? How might advanced computation and data analysis techniques help researchers use these materials to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world? . . .

Due to the overwhelming popularity of round one, the Digging into Data Challenge is pleased to announce that four additional funders have joined for round two, enabling this competition to have a world-wide reach into many different scholarly and scientific domains. The eight sponsoring funding bodies include the Arts & Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom), the Economic & Social Research Council (United Kingdom), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (United States), the Joint Information Systems Committee (United Kingdom), the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States), the National Science Foundation (United States), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Netherlands), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada).

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Supervisory Information Technology Specialist at National Agricultural Library

The National Agricultural Library is recruiting a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist. Salary range: $105,211-$136,771.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Incumbent serves as Chief of the Applications Branch in the Information Systems Division, National Agricultural Library (NAL) with administrative and management responsibility for this branch and ensuring that all NAL computer systems, programming languages, applications, and associated software are managed and utilized effectively.

This position is located in the National Agricultural Library (NAL), http://www.nal.usda.gov the largest and most accessible research library focused on agriculture. NAL was created with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in (USDA) in 1862 and named a national library in 1990 by Congress as “the primary agricultural information resource of the United States. NAL's mission is "to ensure and enhance access to agricultural information for a better quality of life". NAL's work in collecting, preserving, and making agricultural information available is fundamental to the continued well being and growth of U.S. agriculture, and the development of food supplies for the nation and the world. By providing public access to unrivalled collections, NAL enables research through a wide range of information services. These underpin U.S. research competitiveness, support U.S. businesses, and provide an essential service to the public and diverse stakeholders nationally and globally.

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Current News: Twitter Updates for 3/21/11

  1. Movers & Shakers 2011, http://bit.ly/fVEmUD
  2. HarperCollinsGate: Some Thoughts, http://bit.ly/dEKym0
  3. BTB #221: Information for Innovation [Martha Anderson, Director of the NDIIP Program], http://bit.ly/gfWRtl
  4. Library Bodies Warn Publishers Off 'Retrenchment' over E-book Lending, http://bit.ly/fIGqmC
  5. Research Intelligence—Empty Buckets or Pure Gold?, http://bit.ly/g8H7qe
  6. EasyDeposit Now Supports Shibboleth, http://bit.ly/f5Pofp
  7. The Vexed Problem of Libraries, Publishers, and E-books, http://bit.ly/gaGKzq
  8. Colorado Publishers and Libraries Collaborate on Ebook Lending Model, http://bit.ly/fcLOkD

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Digital Initiatives Lead at Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Lead. Salary range: $83,100-$142,500.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Research Library is seeking a lead for its Digital Initiatives Team with responsibility for researching and developing a forward-looking, sustainable infrastructure for preservation, management and delivery of scientific and institutional content by applying community-established best practices to cutting-edge technology. We seek a creative, inspiring manager who will lead a small team on projects aimed at tackling challenges of information interoperability and integration across our large scale digital collections and growing repositories. The library is ambitiously looking forward to becoming embedded and integral to LANL's information infrastructure by providing a robust repository for our unique collections supporting the e-research needs of our world-class scientific community.

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Susan Gibbons Named University Librarian at Yale

Yale University has named Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and the Andrew H. & Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, as its University Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Gibbons joined the University of Rochester in 2000 as the digital initiatives librarian of the River Campus Libraries, and over the years assumed greater and more diversified responsibilities at the University. She was appointed to her present position in 2008.

She is well known in the library world, most significantly for the library user studies at Rochester she has undertaken since 2004. In collaboration with an anthropologist, Gibbons determined how faculty and students do their academic work, find information, and make use of the physical and technological resources offered by the libraries. The results have led to service, collections and physical space changes in the River Campus Libraries designed to better meet user needs. . . .

Gibbons received a B.A. in history from the University of Delaware in 1992, and in 1995, and master's degrees in both history and library science from Indiana University-Bloomington. More recently, she returned to school while working full-time to earn both a M.B.A. in 2002 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an Ed.D. in higher education administration from the University of Rochester in 2009.

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Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future

The Center for Studies in Higher Education has released Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

This report includes (1) an overview of the state of peer review in the Academy at large, (2) a set of recommendations for moving forward, (3) a proposed research agenda to examine in depth the effects of academic status-seeking on the entire academic enterprise, (4) proceedings from the workshop on the four topics noted above, and (5) four substantial and broadly conceived background papers on the workshop topics, with associated literature reviews. The document explores, in particular, the tightly intertwined phenomena of peer review in publication and academic promotion, the values and associated costs to the Academy of the current system, experimental forms of peer review in various disciplinary areas, the effects of scholarly practices on the publishing system, and the possibilities and real costs of creating alternative loci for peer review and publishing that link scholarly societies, libraries, institutional repositories, and university presses. We also explore the motivations and ingredients of successful open access resolutions that are directed at peer-reviewed article-length material. In doing so, this report suggests that creating a wider array of institutionally acceptable and cost-effective alternatives to peer reviewing and publishing scholarly work could maintain the quality of academic peer review, support greater research productivity, reduce the explosive growth of low-quality publications, increase the purchasing power of cash-strapped libraries, better support the free flow and preservation of ideas, and relieve the burden on overtaxed faculty of conducting too much peer review.

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New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation

Association of Research Libraries has released New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation.

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Authored by Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, the report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. The authors consider a "promising set of new roles that libraries are currently carving out in the digital arena," describing emerging strategies for libraries and librarians and highlighting collaborative approaches through a series of case studies of key programs and projects. They also provide helpful definitions and offer recommendations for libraries considering how best to make or expand their investments in digital curation. Issues and developments within and across the sciences and humanities are considered.

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Director, University Libraries Enterprise Technology at University of Minnesota Libraries

The University of Minnesota Libraries are recruiting a Director, University Libraries Enterprise Technology.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus Libraries seek a visionary and experienced information technology leader to imagine, define, implement, and support the next generation of library information systems for one of the leading research institutions and libraries in the country. The newly redefined position of Director of Enterprise Technology emphasizes innovative library service delivery as supported by large-scale system deployments and collaborations. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology, the Director oversees the staff and application support functions of the library's enterprise systems, while collaboratively creating and realizing a broadened vision for the University's enterprise library and data management systems. In this capacity, the Director collaborates with all sectors of the Libraries, the University's coordinate campuses libraries, and the University's Office of Information Technology. The Director also fosters and sustains operational and strategic relationships with peer institutions, consortia, and information system vendors.

The Director of Enterprise Technology envisions plans, and implements collaborative strategies for current and future library enterprise applications to achieve ambitious organizational goals within budgets and timescales. The Director assigns, coordinates, directs, and supervises the staff in the department responsible for several production-deployed enterprise systems, and works with a newly instantiated Data Management and Architecture unit (within Enterprise Technology) and its unit head to shape strategy and operations in response to increasing demands for data processing, data architecture and modeling, and decision-support reporting, all activities that rely heavily on data within enterprise systems. The Director sees that established data standards and IT best practices are supported to ensure interoperability and efficient operations, and to minimize risk. The Director supports numerous relationships within the Libraries, the institution, with peer institutions and with vendors to determine functional and technical requirements and in support of change management. The Director is a member of the Libraries Leadership Council, which shares responsibility for Libraries planning, budget allocation, and strategic program development, and has a critical responsibility for collaboration and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The Director is also a member of the Libraries IT Directors group, and the Libraries IT Council, and leads the Libraries' Enterprise Technology Advisory Council, which includes representation from the University Libraries (Twin Cities), the Law Library, and the University's coordinate campus libraries.

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Director of Scholarly Technology at George Washington University Libraries

The George Washington University Libraries are recruiting a Director of Scholarly Technology.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

  • The Director envisions plans, and implements collaborative strategies for current and future digital library applications to achieve organizational goals within budgets and timescales.
  • The director plans, manages, administers, and is accountable for CIC areas and digital library operations, specifically: user interface development, virtual exhibits, digital repositories, digital library development, and digitization systems.
  • Direct the development of library systems, web presence and usability, library automated operations, online services, and discovery systems.
  • The director will work closely with the Director of Library Information Technology and with the Director, Content Management who is in charge of CIC outreach and business development.
  • He or she will be expected to liaise heavily with all library entities including Library Public Services, Special Collections, Content Management, the Library Information Technology team, and other library stakeholders.
  • The director collaborates with the University Division of IT and Academic Technologies. The Director also fosters and sustains operational and strategic relationships with peer institutions, consortia, and information system vendors.
  • The director participates in Library planning, serves on Library, University-wide and Washington Research Library Consortium committees.
  • The Director is a member of the advisory group, which shares responsibility for Libraries planning, budget allocation, and strategic programs.
  • The director is expected to be active in the national digital library environment, and contribute to developments in the field.
  • Reporting to the Director of Scholarly Technology are: The digital library programmer analyst, the web developer, the library systems coordinator and the digitization operations manager. 
  • The Director of Scholarly Technology will report to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Content Management.

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College & Research Libraries Becomes Immediate Open Access Journal

Joseph J. Branin, Editor of College & Research Libraries, has announced in the journal's current issue that C&RL will "lift its six-month embargo on recently published online articles and become a fully open access journal."

The announcement is an major step for the Association of College & Research Libraries, bringing its open access advocacy positions and its publication practices into alignment.

Librarians were pioneers in publishing scholarly "gold" open access journals. The first library open access journal was the The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, established in 1989 with the first issue published in 1990. It was soon followed by LIBRES (1991), Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (1991), and MC Journal— Journal of Academic Librarianship (1993).

However, over twenty years later, most scholarly library journals still restrict access to their published PDF and/or HTML articles, although most permit self-archiving of author eprints (they may restrict where the eprints can be self-archived).

There are some fine exceptions: Ariadne, Code4Lib Journal, D-Lib Magazine, Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, the International Journal of Digital Curation, the Journal of Digital Information, the Journal of Electronic Publishing, the Journal of the Medical Library Association, Law Library Journal, and LIBER Quarterly come quickly to mind (117 open access library journals are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals). However, scholarly library journals from most major commercial publishers and library association publishers remain restricted access.

Consequently, ACRL's decision to go "gold open access" is an important and welcome one. Hopefully, it will encourage other divisions of the American Library Association to follow suit, providing open access to their journals without embargo periods or other access restrictions.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

On January 10, 2011, the ACRL Board of Directors unanimously passed the following resolution:

Whereas ACRL supports open scholarship and access to scholarly work;

Whereas ACRL publishes C&RL, the premier journal for academic librarians; Whereas ACRL has made successive changes to increase access to the research found in C&RL;

Whereas ACRL member groups support making C&RL an open access journal;

Be it resolved, that ACRL provide open access to the electronic version of College & Research Libraries journal as of April 2011; and,

Be it further resolved, that ACRL, through this action, continues to play a leading role in advocating for new models of scholarly communication in all of the disciplines.

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