The Florida Virtual Campus is recruiting a Coordinator, Digital Library Services.

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This position will be part of the Digital Services workgroup, which helps the libraries of the public colleges and universities of Florida create, manage, maintain and preserve digital information resources. The incumbent will provide support for one or more of the following: digital special collections and archives, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), archival finding aids (EADs), electronic journals, and/or other born-digital and retrospectively digitized materials. S/he will work with commercial, open source, and locally-developed content management applications such as DigiTool, Archon, the Open Journal System (OJS), OAI data and service providers, Fedora, Islandora and Drupal. The incumbent will develop and provide expertise to FLVC and library staff in one or more specialty areas as required; examples of these areas include resource description (cataloging and metadata), audio and video formats, archives and records management, and scholarly communications.

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Miriely Guerrero has self-archived Removable Media and the use of Digital Forensics in Deep Blue.

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Overview of preservation threats facing removable media, both magnetic (such as 3.5 and 5.25 floppy disks) and optical (CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc.). Includes a literature review of digital forensic techniques relevant to the ingest and accession of born-digital content on removable media.

| Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (EPUB file, PDF file, paperback, and XHTML website; over 650 entries) | Digital Scholarship |

• What's New—Issue 52, February 2013 [Digital Preservation Coalition], http://t.co/K2kKiwm6
• Tackling Challenges in Research Data Management, http://t.co/IGFpzRhT
• PASIG 12th International Meeting, http://t.co/Sddg8n7J
• Digital Content Curation and Why It Matters to Librarians (Behav. & Social Sci. Librarian), http://t.co/PNmzDTtS
• Managing Authenticity through the Digital Resource Lifecycle [In Digital Libraries and Archives], http://t.co/tzV1N9fX

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• 100Gbps and Beyond: What Lies Ahead in the World of Networking, http://t.co/rieDRUU4
• The Next eBook Evolution: Pay As You Read eBooks, http://t.co/usxWs0rF
• DH [Digital Humanities] Awards 2012 Results, http://t.co/SUyKz4a3
• Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less, http://t.co/dPQaOaui
• The Global 50: The World's Largest Book Publishers, 2012, http://t.co/v18VNvML

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Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Stanford Digital Repository Operations Manager.

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The Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) Operations Manager is responsible for ensuring operational excellence across the processes, policies and technologies necessary to ensure successful and trusted management and preservation of digital content over time. Stanford University Libraries' (SUL) SDR manages hundreds of terabytes of assets, and is extending services to include data stewardship of all formats of scholarly information, deposited and reused by an increasing array of depositors both within and beyond Stanford University. As the SDR services and content base expand dramatically, the SDR Operations Manager will play a pivotal role in codifying SDR operations as a trustworthy digital repository, operating at scale, that meets the needs of the University for a secure, sustainable store of authentic, digital information. . . .

This is a four-year, fixed-term position with possibility for extension.

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Clark D. Asay has self-archived "A Case for the Public Domain" in SSRN.

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Over the past several decades open license movements have proven highly successful in the software and content worlds. . . . This Article argues that this IP-based approach, while perhaps helpful in the beginning, is no longer necessary and in fact prevents the movements from reaching their full potential. The IP-based approach has this effect by causing significant transaction costs without offsetting benefits, resulting in a tragedy of the anti-commons. The IP-based approach also creates the risk of IP trolls in the future, especially in the copyright sphere. . . . The Article then examines the benefits of a public domain approach and argues that such an approach would reduce the wasteful transaction costs, limit the possibility of IP trolls, still satisfy the purposes of those that contribute materials under open licenses, and better align with the normative tenets of such movements. To conclude, the Article assesses the merits of a "Public Domain Act" that would help address obstacles that currently exist in dedicating materials to the public domain and posits some theoretical implications relating to innovation based on the experiences of the open license movements and the arguments of this Article.

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The Georgia State University Library is recruiting a Digital Projects Coordinator.

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Georgia State University Library seeks a leader for the Library's digitization program. Responsibilities include managing personnel for digitization projects and, in coordination with other library personnel, seeking grant funding for digitization projects.

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has released The Demographics of Social Media Users—2012.

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A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time, other groups are interested in different sites and services.

Internet users under 50 are particularly likely to use a social networking site of any kind, and those 18-29 are the most likely of any demographic cohort to do so (83%). Women are more likely than men to be on these sites. Those living in urban settings are also significantly more likely than rural internet users to use social networking.

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• TOC 2013: Digital First Sale and its Discontents, http://t.co/ZPDcFxMa
• Sale of Used E-books Getting Closer, http://t.co/mgO1f2UC
• Fourth-Time Lucky for US Open Access Bill?, http://t.co/xd9zMsEp
• Ten Organizations Letter in Support of FASTR [Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act], http://t.co/1elRUNYg
• City University London Open Access Policy, http://t.co/hUqZzFiC

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Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Web Archiving Service Manager.

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The Web Archiving Service Manager is responsible for driving the definition, rollout and ongoing support of Stanford University Libraries' (SUL) Web Archiving service. The Service Manager will work directly with Stanford librarians, faculty and researchers to run web harvesting tools in order to collect web content to be archived in the Stanford Digital Repository. The Service Manager will lead efforts to identify and assemble existing technologies, employ current methods, and then maintain and enhance the service over time, responding to the inevitable changes in the Web's technology and likely increasing demand for capturing sites in support of the University's needs for research, teaching, library collection building, as well as regulatory compliance.

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Ian Ramsay has self-archived "SSRN and Law Journals—Rivals or Allies?" in SSRN.

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The author identifies and evaluates the respective merits of publication in law journals and publication on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN)—the largest open access repository for legal scholarship. This evaluation leads to the conclusion that at this stage of the evolution of law journals and SSRN, there are advantages in authors publishing both in journals and on SSRN. However, publication on SSRN can have particular advantages for authors in smaller countries.

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University of the Pacific Library is recruiting a Head of Library Systems and Technology.

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Reporting to the Assistant Dean of the University Library, this position is responsible for the overall coordination of systems and technology applications services for the University of the Pacific University Library. This position blends a user-oriented approach with a commitment to exploration of new technologies to support a variety of service platforms and applications and to develop and expand the University Library's systems and technology applications program. As part of the Access & Discovery Services Division of the University Library, the Systems & Technology Applications Unit supports the University Library's network infrastructure, staff and public computer equipment and software, databases and applications, the University Library's discovery service (POUNCE), online catalog (PacifiCat), digital collections, and web environment as well as the Information Commons and the Multimedia Studio.

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