The University of Georgia Libraries are recruiting an Assistant University Librarian.

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The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a forward-thinking, results-oriented leader for the position of Assistant University Librarian (AUL) for Technology Services to help refine and implement the information technology vision of the UGA Libraries and the statewide GALILEO virtual library. The AUL serves as a part of the senior library management team. Reporting to the University Librarian and Associate Provost, the AUL administers and coordinates IT support services for the University of Georgia Libraries. The AUL also supervises the staff at the UGA Libraries who support GALILEO (Georgia's statewide virtual library) and GIL (the University System of Georgia's (USG) library management system) and coordinates their activities with the Executive Director for Library Services of the Board of Regents (BOR), USG. The AUL represents the UGA Libraries with campus Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS), BOR Library Services, technology vendors, and at state and national library arenas focused on technology.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte has announced that his committee will undertake a comprehensive review of copyright law.

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There is little doubt that our copyright system faces new challenges today. The Internet has enabled copyright owners to make available their works to consumers around the world, but has also enabled others to do so without any compensation for copyright owners. Efforts to digitize our history so that all have access to it face questions about copyright ownership by those who are hard, if not impossible, to locate. There are concerns about statutory license and damage mechanisms. Federal judges are forced to make decisions using laws that are difficult to apply today. Even the Copyright Office itself faces challenges in meeting the growing needs of its customers—the American public.

So it is my belief that a wide review of our nation's copyright laws and related enforcement mechanisms is timely. I am announcing today that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a comprehensive series of hearings on U.S. copyright law in the months ahead. The goal of these hearings will be to determine whether the laws are still working in the digital age. I welcome all interested parties to submit their views and concerns to the Committee.

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• New Tools Available to Mine World's Largest Digital Repository of Books, http://t.co/C4CITtnVoQ
• Internet2 Signs Deal With Smithsonian to Connect Colleges to Digitized Artifacts, http://t.co/NmR8g0Yt8L
• The New York Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Legislation (A180-2013 and S405-2013), http://t.co/HWSryzJNAr
• Building the Foundation for an Open Data Directory, http://t.co/odz5gatRcw
• Open Access Science News Is Mostly Good, with a Bit of Ugly, http://t.co/NVl3kreYTT
• Bibliographic Management: Thomson Reuters Launches Free Online Version of EndNote, http://t.co/epvEqz0N7E
• A Quick Guide to Private Browsing, http://t.co/sPdHHLdXfL

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• Making Memento Successful
• BitTorrent Sync Creates Private, Peer-to-Peer Dropbox, No Cloud Required
• Research Data Management and Libraries [Presentation]
• RDMRose: Taught and CPD Learning Materials about Research Data Management Tailored for Information Professionals [Presentation]
• Trust and Digital Preservation [Training event]

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The Government and Heritage Library is recruiting a Librarian—Systems Support.

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This is a time-limited position. The Government and Heritage Library is seeking an enthusiastic, innovative Systems Support Librarian to be part of the NCpedia team in the Digital Information Management Program. NCpedia is the online North Carolina encyclopedia managed by the Library. Using a combination of XML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP (or additional programming/scripting languages), this position manages and maintains the NCpedia's hosted Drupal installation which includes 20+ Drupal modules and continuous upgrades.

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Carolyn F. Hank has self-archived "Scholars and Their Blogs: Characteristics, Preferences, and Perceptions Impacting Digital Preservation" in the Carolina Digital Repository.

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This descriptive study investigated scholars who blog in the areas of history, economics, law, biology, chemistry and physics, as well as attributes of their respective blogs. It offers an examination of scholars' attitudes and perceptions of their blogs in relation to the system of scholarly communication and their preferences for digital preservation.. . . Most feel their blogs should be preserved for both personal and public access and use into the indefinite, rather than short-term, future. Scholars who blog identify themselves as most responsible for blog preservation. Concerning capability, scholars perceive blog service providers, hosts, and networks as most capable. National and institutional-based libraries and archives, as well as institutional IT departments, are perceived as least responsible and capable for preservation of scholars' respective blogs.

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The University of Cincinnati Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repository Software Developer.

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Full-time staff appointment responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining software components and interfaces of the UC Libraries digital repository service, to support the storage and management of digital images, text, audio, video, data sets, and other content, plus a suite of tools and services to support ingestion, search and discovery, digital object presentation, preservation of digital content, and other workflows.

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Nicolas Suzor has self-archived "Access, Progress, and Fairness: Rethinking Exclusivity in Copyright" in SSRN.

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This Article examines models of supporting and coordinating cultural production without exclusivity, including crowdfunding, tips, levies, restitution, and service-based models. In their current forms, each of these models fails to provide a cohesive and convincing vision of the two main functions of copyright: instrumentally (how cultural production can be funded) and fairness (how authors can be adequately rewarded). This article provides three avenues for future research to investigate the viability of alternate copyright models: (1) a better theory of fairness in copyright rewards; (2) more empirical study of commons models of cultural production; and (3) a critical examination of the noneconomic harm limiting function that exclusivity in copyright provides

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A Google Custom Search Engine is now available for the entire Digital Scholarship site.

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• German Court Nixes Selling Used E-books, http://t.co/0hdTsyB6Kt
• WTF? The University of California Sides with Publishers against the Public, http://t.co/k6TwAssWEX
• Google Accessibility Improvements, http://t.co/VSS8JqZALU
• What I Learned Getting Published by Taylor & Francis, http://t.co/RWOwzqRfao
• Google Glass for Everybody A 'Year-Ish' Away, http://t.co/almS1vcn7E
• Senate Passes "Online Sales Tax" by 74-20 Vote, http://t.co/jY7SKPm5rA
• Open Access in Poland: Interview with Bozena Bednarek-Michalska, http://t.co/FeFGQ2ln1C

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• Celebrating DigCCurr—Curate Thyself: Defining and Cultivating an Academic Trajectory in Digital Curation and Digital Curation Education Experts Meeting
• NEW: Learn All about Digital Preservation at State Library, State Archives of North Carolina Web Site
• Born Digital Archival Materials at NYPL: An Interview with Donald Mennerich
• "A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology and Software Tools"
• Proposals due April 26 for Digital Preservation 2013, July 23-25, Washington DC
• UELMA: A Law We All Can Love

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The Mountain West Digital Library is recruiting a Digital Metadata Librarian (funded through August 31, 2014).

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The Digital Metadata Librarian of the Mountain West Digital Library will support the improvement of metadata standards and metadata in digital collections from MWDL partners, including memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Hawaii, and around the Mountain West region. Facilitate the ingestion of collections into MWDL and from there into the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Work with new partners and repositories to resolve metadata issues and Open Archives Initiative (OAI) interoperability issues. Execute ingestion of new collections into Ex Libris Primo. Perform metadata audits of new collections and spot-check existing collections. Conduct metadata training for partner institutions. Describe new collections on website.

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