E-Sciences Librarian for Engineering at University of Kansas Libraries

The University of Kansas Libraries are recruiting an E-Sciences Librarian for Engineering. Required degree: "ALA-accredited master's degree in library and/or information studies."

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 00007857):

The KU Libraries' E-sciences Librarian for Engineering strengthens the libraries' partnership with the School of Engineering (SOE) and the scientific research community. Working with a team of science librarians on the KU/Lawrence, and KU Medical campus, s/he develops and facilitates access to rich and robust scholarly knowledge products. Through active collaboration and consultation, this position is a key liaison to the SOE supporting the research and educational vision of the School and embedding information literacy into the curriculum.

At a university level, the E-Science Librarian works as part of campus collaborations vested in existing and emerging research services and critical support for the management, sharing, and effective use of scientific knowledge products. These services will span the lifecycle of scientific research and help insure appropriate levels of fluency in the use of engineering and scientific resources. This individual will actively partner in campus research data management initiatives, including planning, curation, and dissemination projects to manage the lifecycle of KU's scientific data. The E-Sciences Librarian is equally responsible for providing both general and specialized reference, research and instructional services to faculty, staff and students in Engineering and related areas.

The E-Science Librarian reports to the Head of Data Initiatives and Maps as part of the KU Libraries' Center for Digital Scholarship. S/he will work closely with the Spahr Engineering Library branch services manager who is responsible for day-to-day operations including circulation, stacks management, service desk, and facilities.

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"Getting Started in the Digital Humanities"

Lisa Spiro has published "Getting Started in the Digital Humanities" in her Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog. This useful post is very detailed.

Here's an excerpt:

Last week I presented at the Great Lakes College Association's New Directions workshop on digital humanities (DH), where I tried to answer the question "Why the digital humanities?" But I discovered that an equally important question is "How do you do the digital humanities"? Although participants seemed to be excited about the potential of digital humanities, some weren't sure how to get started and where to go for support and training.

Building on the slides I presented at the workshop, I'd like to offer some ideas for how a newcomer might get acquainted with the community and dive into DH work. I should emphasize that many in the DH community are to some extent self-taught and/or gained their knowledge through work on projects rather than through formal training.

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Emerging Technologies Librarian, Science Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries are recruiting an Emerging Technologies Librarian, Science Libraries. Required degree: "MLS/MLIS from an ALA-accredited institution required."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is seeking an Emerging Technologies Librarian to work in special collaboration with library faculty, administrators, and the greater University community in support of the Libraries' new initiatives. An energetic, service-oriented individual is desired who will be able to engage as a member of the Science Libraries team, paying particular attention to emerging trends, with a key role in analyzing data services needs as they relate to data sets and their management. The incumbent will play an active role in supporting the Libraries' reference and instruction functions, including as a liaison to the School of Computer Science (SCS), one of the top-ranked computer science schools in the world.

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Pew Research Center Gets $1.4 Million Grant to Study Role of Public Libraries and Library Users in the Digital Age

The Pew Research Center has been awarded a three-year $1.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study role of public libraries and library users in the digital age.

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Through national surveys, a series of focus groups in a diverse mix of communities, and special surveys of library patrons, the Pew Internet Project will examine how library users' habits and tastes are changing in the age of e-books, widespread mobile connectivity and the existence of vast digital collections. . . .

"Few institutions have been more challenged by the rise of the internet and mobile connectivity than the local library," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project. "Many libraries have responded with innovations and sweeping overhauls in the way they deliver on their missions. With the Gates Foundation's support, the Pew Internet Project will provide an in-depth, data-driven analysis of how libraries are responding to technology trends, and how communities' expectations are changing at a time when library functions are in flux."

| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

Digital Initiatives/Subject Specialist Librarian at University of New Orleans Library

The Earl K. Long Library at the University Of New Orleans is recruiting a Digital Initiatives/Subject Specialist Librarian. Required degree: "ALA accredited MLS degree." Salary: "starting at $44,000."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsible for providing expert knowledge and leadership in technical planning, implementation, project management and support of the Library's digital collection initiatives. Serves as an enthusiastic and dynamic liaison to the campus community in promotion and development of the library's institutional repositories. Serves as subject specialist in one or more assigned subject areas, assuming overall responsibility for the development of the collection, reference, instruction, and outreach services in those subject areas.

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E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography

Digital Scholarship has released the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography. It includes English-language articles, books, editorials, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the broad role of academic libraries in e-science efforts. The scope of this brief selective bibliography is narrow, and it does not cover data curation and research data management issues in libraries in general. Most sources have been published from 2007 through October 18, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2007 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles.

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Current News: Twitter Updates for 10/17/11

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Open Online Research Data Management Course for Ph.D Students

The Research Data MANTRA project has released a freely available online research data management course for Ph.D students. The course is under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland License.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement :

The JISC-funded Research Data MANTRA project has produced a course for postgraduate students and early career researchers who work with data and would like to learn more about how to manage it effectively. Course content is geared towards the geosciences, social and political sciences and clinical psychology; however, many of the issues covered apply equally to all research disciplines.

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Metadata Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries

The North Carolina State University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian. Required degree: "ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent advanced degree in library or information science."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

he NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Metadata Librarian to lead the metadata and data quality section in the Metadata and Cataloging Department. The incumbent will play a leadership role in library-wide non-MARC metadata projects and will lead projects in data management and workflow optimization. This position offers the opportunity to join a department that is committed to developing user-centered, transformative approaches to cataloging in a changing landscape of bibliographic control. The department is actively moving from workflows that emphasize item-by-item cataloging toward metadata creation processes that facilitate large-scale access to our collections and prioritize the discovery of hidden collections.

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Digital Initiatives Librarian at Montana State University Libraries

The Montana State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Required degree: "ALA-accredited MLS, MIS, or equivalent." Salary: $43,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Facilitate the development of the Library's overall web-based and digital services programs. Act as lead worker for specific projects and working groups as needed. Train and work directly with library staff to help make them more effective content contributors. Maintain ongoing development of the Libraries' web services and digital projects. Incorporate appropriate design principles, information architectures, coding standards, and emerging technologies into the Libraries' various open source web-based systems and projects. Contribute to processes that deliver library content to external discovery and delivery mechanisms, such as: APIs and RESTful web services, search engine optimization, mobile application development, OAI harvesters, and integration with campus learning management systems and social sites. Anticipate web trends, investigate their application in academic libraries, and help to develop new web-based and digital services.

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"HathiTrust’s Past, Present, and Future"

The HathiTrust has released "HathiTrust's Past, Present, and Future" by John Wilkin.

Here's an excerpt:

My plan today is to talk about HathiTrust's past, present and future. Don't worry—I won't do a history of HathiTrust. My discussion of the "past" will be primarily about the organization's early accomplishments, and begins with a review of our Short- and Long-Term Functional Objects. I'll then talk briefly about a few things in the HathiTrust pipeline, and finally conclude with an overview of some of the larger changes that have taken place since 2008. A point I'd like to emphasize now and throughout is that this is a "libraries writ large" success story. What has happened is something that we accomplished collectively. This is not a story of an external organization—Google, a government agency, or some external champion—doing something for us. This is our story, and one that we need to understand and celebrate.

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom

The WAC Clearinghouse has released Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom as an open access book under a under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Here's an excerpt:

The book is divided into three topic areas: Part I focuses on the law and legal landscape; Part II focuses on the tools and resources available to researchers and teachers; and Part III focuses on pedagogical practices and approaches for addressing intellectual property in the writing classroom. Each part concludes with a response by a notable scholar who helps highlight connections among the chapters and identifies enduring questions and future directions for scholarship and action.

| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

Head, Systems Development Department at Old Dominion University Libraries

Old Dominion University Libraries are recruiting a Head, Systems Development Department. Required required: "ALA accredited MLS."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The successful candidate would provide departmental leadership and management and would develop, implement, and support all information systems for the ODU Libraries. This includes planning for new technology, managing ongoing projects, directing daily technical operations, and participating on the technology management team for the 24/5 Learning Commons. As a member of the Library Management Team, this position also plays a key role in library-wide planning, policy making, and the development, evaluation, and assessment of library services and resources.

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Best Practices for TEI in Libraries: A Guide for Mass Digitization, Automated Workflows, and Promotion of Interoperability with XML Using the TEI

The TEI Special Interest Group on Libraries has released version three of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries: A Guide for Mass Digitization, Automated Workflows, and Promotion of Interoperability with XML Using the TEI.

Here's an excerpt from:

There are many different library text digitization projects, serving a variety of purposes. With this in mind, these Best Practices are meant to be as inclusive as possible by specifying five encoding levels. These levels are meant to allow for a range of practice, from wholly automated text creation and encoding, to encoding that requires expert content knowledge, analysis, and editing. The encoding levels are not strictly cumulative: while higher levels tend to build upon lower levels by including more elements, higher levels are not supersets because some elements used at lower levels are not used at higher levels—often because more specific elements replace generic elements.

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Preservation Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is recruiting a Preservation Librarian. Required degree: "ALA-accredited MLIS or equivalent, or a graduate degree including coursework or experience in preservation administration."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the John "Bud" Velde Head of Preservation, the Preservation Librarian will oversee existing staff and programs in support of reformatting, media, and digital preservation efforts within the existing program. Specific duties include: . . . .

Establishing workflows for the preservation of digital materials as well as testing and implementing necessary infrastructure in close collaboration with the Digital Library Access, Repository, and Scholarly Communication Services Advisory Group Collaborating with other units and groups in the University Library and Campus that acquire, create, preserve, and provide access to digitized or 'born-digital' materials (including Digital Content Creation, Office of Information Technology Planning and Policy, IDEALS, and the University Archives, among others) to develop and coordinate a Library-wide digital preservation program and associated services.

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"The Long Wait: LJ‘s Placements & Salaries Survey 2011"

Stephanie L. Maatta has published "The Long Wait: LJ's Placements & Salaries Survey 2011" in Library Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

The challenge for many was finding a permanent professional position. Of the 1,547 graduates reporting a job of any type, a mere 59.2% described those jobs as being both permanent and professional. This was another year of decline in permanent positions, dropping from 61% in 2009 and a high of 75.8% in 2007.

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Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of North Texas Libraries

The University of North Texas Libraries are recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian. Required degree: "ALA-accredited master's degree in library or information sciences or an international equivalent by January 2012."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Scholarly Communications Librarian will serve as a key resource on copyright compliance for the UNT Libraries and supervise activities related to library reserves. The librarian exercises broad independent judgment and authority under the general direction of the Access Services Department Head. The librarian serves on library committees and work groups as assigned. Duties may also include providing additional public services, assisting with collection development, and teaching library instruction sessions.

The Scholarly Communications Librarian will be responsible for developing and implementing an educational program to increase copyright compliance awareness among UNT faculty, researchers, students, and library staff. The librarian will serve as a library resource on copyright compliance, fair use, and other copyright issues, as well as maintain an efficient reserves operation.

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Current News: Twitter Updates for 10/13/11

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Programmer Analyst at California Digital Library

The California Digital Library is recruiting a Programmer Analyst. Required degree: "Bachelor's degree in computer science, information management or science, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education." Salary: $45,700-$71,700.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Technical Lead, Digital Special Collections, the incumbent participates in the Access Services Team responsible for the design and maintenance of web sites and other systems that provide access to digital resources held at the California Digital Library.

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Director of Digital Initiatives at J. Murrey Atkins Library at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is recruiting a Director of Digital Initiatives. Required degree: "Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems."

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 8607)

The J. Murrey Atkins Library at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking a Director of Digital Initiatives. Atkins Library's Digital Initiatives Department is responsible for drawing the Library's digital presence into ever greater alignment with the campus research and teaching needs, and with University IT strategic planning.

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Digital Library Services Manager at Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources

Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources are recruiting a Digital Library Services Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (job ID: 44514):

The Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) group is responsible for designing, developing and operating the systems that manage, preserve and provide access to the digital assets of the Stanford University Libraries, one of the world's top research libraries and an international leader in the digital library arena. SULAIR currently has a sophisticated and expanding library cyberinfrastructure that supports digital assets through all phases of their lifecycle, including a service-oriented architecture, a digital repository for management and preservation of digital assets, and a suite of web applications and tools that enable resource acquisition, digitization, description, discovery and access.

The Manager for Digital Library Services leads DLSS's team of product and project managers. S/he sets and oversees the practice for functional analysis, service definition and user-facing service operation for SULAIR's digital library services. The Manager for Digital Library Services also leads DLSS's project management framework, balancing a lightweight approach to project management with appropriate rigor for software and service development initiatives.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Digital Library Systems & Services, the incumbent in this position works as part of a dynamic management team comprising other engineering managers, and the project managers in DLSS. The management team is responsible for cooperative resource allocation, department-wide goal definition, and the timely and successful scoping and delivery of development efforts that pull on the resources and expertise of contributors from across the Libraries. The incumbent will lead the team of experts providing functional analysis and project management for DLSS initiatives, and work closely with the digitization, engineering and system administration teams and their managers.

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Investigations on Storage and Versioning of Digital Objects

The Stanford Digital Repository has released four short reports on "open source storage solutions that include the ability to efficiently and securely preserve multiple-version digital objects which contain large binary files."

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

Chief Technology Officer at Yale University Library

Yale University Library is recruiting a Chief Technology Officer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (STARS no.: 14387BR):

Yale University Library (YUL) seeks an innovative and experienced leader to fill its senior technology position. A member of YUL's executive team, and reporting to the University Librarian, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) has responsibility for programmatic, strategic, budgetary, managerial and operational responsibilities for YUL digital library and information technology support throughout the YUL system. Additionally, the CTO will represent the goals and interests of YUL in University-wide and national endeavors.

As a result of significant personnel changes and organizational restructuring, the CTO will have the opportunity to realign the IT staff and technology infrastructure of YUL, as well as develop multi-year strategic planning initiatives that further YUL's mission and goals.

The portfolio of activity under the CTO will include web development, digital asset management, infrastructure services, enterprise technologies, digital and persistent access, and workstation support. The CTO directly oversees a department of 15 FTE that rests within a library organization that has IT projects and additional IT staff distributed widely throughout. YUL's expansive IT systems include one of the largest integrated library systems in the country, nearly half a petabyte of storage over 75 licensed, open-source and locally developed systems, and more than 1,000 workstations.

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