Year: 2011

Associate Director for Library Applications and Knowledge Systems at University of Maryland-Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library

The University of Maryland-Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library is recruiting an Associate Director for Library Applications and Knowledge Systems. Degree: "Masters degree in library or information sciences accredited by the American Library Association." Salary range: $55,000-$80,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs/Executive Director Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL), this newly created faculty position will provide leadership for the library applications and knowledge systems integrating the resources, services and programs of the HS/HSL. Working in a highly collaborative environment, the Associate Director for Library Applications and Knowledge Systems will manage 7.5 staff consisting of an internal library network administrator, web developers, support staff, and an instructional technology/design team.

| Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews

OCLC Research has released Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 1: Site Reviews.

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

Traditionally, staff at libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) create metadata for the content they manage. However, social metadata—content contributed by users—is evolving as a way to both augment and recontextualize the content and metadata created by LAMs. Many cultural heritage institutions are interested in gaining a better understanding of social metadata and also learning how to best utilize their users' expertise to enrich their descriptive metadata and improve their users' experiences.

In order to facilitate this, a 21-member RLG Partners Social Metadata Working Group reviewed 76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc. In addition, working group members surveyed site managers, analyzed the survey results and discussed the factors that contribute to successful—and not so successful—use of social metadata. They also considered issues related to assessment, content, policies, technology, and vocabularies.

This report includes an environmental scan of 76 social metadata sites and a detailed review of 24 representative sites.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Digital Projects Coordinator at Washington Research Library Consortium

The Washington Research Library Consortium is recruiting a Digital Projects Coordinator. Degree: "ALA accredited master's degree in library or information science or masters degree in related field."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Projects Coordinator plays a key role in the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) by creating synergies among the partner universities to enable the success of learning and scholarship through the creation of digital collections. The Digital Projects Coordinator is responsible for leading, managing, coordinating and guiding the exceptional expertise and hardware resources to digitize the extraordinary collections available among the partners in the WRLC. This position will build a shared, sustainable infrastructure which facilitates sharing across the consortium and with other organizations that is cost-effective and efficient through collaboration. This position will work collaboratively with the WRLC Digital Practices Committee (DPC) to establish requirements and standards, provide expert guidance, interface with metadata and technology staff, coordinate the work of digitization service providers, and manage final processing and quality control.

| Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 | Digital Scholarship |

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Adopts Open Access Policy

The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has adopted an open access policy. EPSRC is "the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing more than £850 million a year in a broad range of subjects—from mathematics to materials science, and from information technology to structural engineering." Previously in the UK, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Natural Environmental Research Council, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council have adopted open access policies.

Here's an excerpt from the policy:

EPSRC Council has agreed to mandate open access publication, with the proviso that academics should be able to choose the approach best suited to their field of research. This mandate is now being implemented: EPSRC requires authors to comply with this mandate and ensure that all published research articles arising from EPSRC-sponsored research, and which are submitted for publication on or after 1st September 2011, must become available on an Open Access basis through any appropriate route. As now, publication costs may be recovered either as 'directly incurred costs' (if incurred before the end date of the relevant research project) or as indirect costs (and hence factored into the fEC indirect cost rate for the relevant research organisation).

| Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography | Digital Scholarship |

Assistant/Associate Librarian (Scholarly Communications) at Grand Valley State University Libraries

The Grand Valley State University Libraries are recruiting an Assistant/Associate Librarian (Scholarly Communications). Degree: "Master of Library Science degree from an ALA accredited institution."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Develops and manages a program that seeks to collect, preserve and disseminate faculty, student and institutional scholarship and creative outputs; Assists liaison librarians with the identification and addition of materials to the Libraries institutional repository from within their subject areas; Identifies the scholarly communication support needs of liaison librarians and develops documentation and provides educational opportunities to meet those needs; Serves as a primary point of reference on copyright issues, coordinating with other stakeholders within the Libraries, developing resources and providing training and instruction; Develops and provides University-wide educational opportunities for sharing information about scholarly communications, open access, copyright and institutional repositories; Stays abreast of trends and issues in scholarly communication, open access, institutional repositories, copyright and related areas.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

"Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims"

Brandon Butler has published "Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims" in the latest issue of Research Library Issues.

Here's an excerpt:

Negotiating copyright law can be challenging even when basic facts are not in doubt. It becomes unnecessarily difficult when publishers, distributors, and even some libraries misrepresent basic facts: which works are under copyright, and which rights a library must purchase to support teaching and learning. Unfortunately such misrepresentations are widespread. This article will describe two common misrepresentations about copyright law: "copyfraud" and "public performance rights" for classroom uses.

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Assistant/Associate Librarian (Digital Initiatives) at Grand Valley State University Libraries

The Grand Valley State University Libraries are recruiting an Assistant/Associate Librarian (Digital Initiatives). Degree: "Master of Library Science degree from an ALA accredited institution."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Anticipates future trends and maintains current awareness of national and international developments affecting knowledge management, digital scholarship and information retrieval; Responsible for identifying, assessing and implementing new technologies and exploring innovative ways to use existing applications as a means for delivering information services and resources; In collaboration with others, promotes, develops and supports the Library's technology-rich learning environments; Defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services; Provides training and outreach to the library and campus community about digital library initiatives and emerging technologies; Provides ongoing qualitative and quantitative assessment of digital library services and technologies; Works with the Head of Instructional Programs and others to develop and support new and innovative methods for delivering instruction; Collaborate with others to support faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship, and provide advice on technical best practices, standards, and processes for digitizing and archiving materials in a variety of formats.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Open University Releases Full-Text Search Engine for UK Repositories

The Open University has released a full-text search engine for UK Repositories called CORE.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Open access research is now more accessible as JISC has developed a new search engine to help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK's open access repositories.

JISC has funded the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) to create an innovative new search facility which searches not just the abstract but the full text of the article.

When researchers use current systems like Google Scholar to search academic papers they can find themselves denied access to the full article, particularly when subscription fees are required. They also typically have to search across a number of open access repositories or use searches that harvest data from different sources.

But now, using the Connecting Repositories tool or CORE, people can search the full text of items held in all 142 approved Open Access repositories.

Once they've found what they're looking for, the CORE system stores these downloads, so that people can still get access to the papers they have found useful even if the original repository is offline. . . .

Search CORE with your research question.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Director of Digital Initiatives and Technologies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Library and Information Services

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Library and Information Services is recruiting a Director of Digital Initiatives and Technologies. Degree: "Master's degree in Library Science or Information Science from an ALA accredited institution."

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Dean of Library and Information Services (LIS), the Director of Digital Initiatives and Technologies is a librarian faculty member and a member of the administrative team, responsible for providing direction and expertise in digital library applications, including web development, emerging technologies and digital initiatives, in collaboration with other librarians and library departments.

Primary responsibilities include: works both independently and in team settings across LIS units to develop new digital library services that emphasize service, performance, sustainability, and usability; leads other LIS departments in identifying and developing collaborative approaches in the creation of digital collections, data curation and digital scholarship; plans, implements and manages the library's website development and chairs the LIS Web Committee; develops tools that support ongoing assessment of library services and technology needs; teaches digital technology for library faculty and staff; encourages integration of technology into the library's physical and virtual presence; participates in team-teaching sessions with various subject librarians to meet student needs; creates and implements agreed upon library-wide policies, programs, and procedures related to digital initiatives and technologies; serves as the chief liaison for LIS with Information Technology Services and works with their staff to provide enhancements to existing digital library applications; represents LIS in campus-wide initiatives in knowledge management and serves on the University's Institutional Repository Committee.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

"ARL Library Investment Index 2009-2010"

The Association of Research Libraries has released the "ARL Library Investment Index 2009-2010" as an xls file.

Here's an excerpt:

ARL makes publicly available the ARL Library Investment Index (previously named the ARL Expenditures-Focused Index). Beginning with data for 2005-06, this Index replaces the public availability of the ARL Membership Criteria Index. This new Index is highly correlated with the ARL Membership Criteria Index and less affected by changes in the collections variables. The ARL Library Investment Index calculates principal component scores and the analysis is based on all university member libraries' data (as compared with the ARL Membership Criteria Index, which is based on the 34 founding members of the Association). It is a summary measure of relative size among the university members of the association and has also been calculated retrospectively beginning with data from 2002-03. The Index scores are rounded to two decimal places, which may give the appearance of identical scores (and thus ranks) for some institutions; in fact, when the complete principal component score is calculated, it is extended to higher precision decimal places. Each institution has a unique result and place in the rank order.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Director of Digital Scholarship at University of Kentucky Libraries

The University of Kentucky Libraries are recruiting a Director of Digital Scholarship. Degree: "ALA-accredited Master's degree in Library & Information Science."

Here's an excerpt from the ad (requisition no. SM537479):

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Collections and Technical Services, the Director of Digital Scholarship leads an energetic and collaborative program that engages faculty, staff, and students in initiatives to maximize the dissemination, preservation and impact of the university's scholarship and research. This individual will oversee UK Libraries' new institutional repository, UKnowledge (http://uknowledge.uky.edu/), a Digital Commons based initiative. The Director will continue the development of repository policies, procedures and services. The Director will engage with faculty and students to secure content and develop partnerships. The Director will create promotional materials, actively advertise UKnowledge to the university community, and develop the UK Libraries' scholarly communications website. The Director will collaborate with UK Information Technology on the development of an enterprise repository for campus.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Princeton University Adopts Open Access Policy

Princeton University has adopted an open access policy. The faculty unanimously approved the policy on 9/19/11. Previously, open access polices have been adopted by seven schools at Harvard University, Emory University, Duke University, MIT, the University of Kansas, the University of North Texas, and other U.S. academic institutions and units.

Here's an excerpt from the policy:

1) The members of the Faculty of Princeton University strive to make their publications openly accessible to the public. To that end, each Faculty member hereby grants to The Trustees of Princeton University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any medium, whether now known or later invented, provided the articles are not sold by the University for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. This grant applies to all scholarly articles that any person authors or co-authors while appointed as a member of the Faculty, except for any such articles authored or co-authored before the adoption of this policy or subject to a conflicting agreement formed before the adoption of this policy. Upon the express direction of a Faculty member, the Provost or the Provost's designate will waive or suspend application of this license for a particular article authored or co-authored by that Faculty member.

The University hereby authorizes each member of the faculty to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles that are subject to the terms and conditions of the grant set forth above. This authorization is irrevocable, non-assignable, and may be amended by written agreement in the interest of further protecting and promoting the spirit of open access.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Web Coordinator and Information Services Librarian at Boston University’s Alumni Medical Library

Boston University's Alumni Medical Library is recruiting a Web Coordinator and Information Services Librarian. Degree: "Must have a Masters degree in Library Science or an equivalent degree and at least 3 years experience in a similar position."

Here's an excerpt from the ad (tracking code: 5781):

This position develops, designs and maintains the database-driven Library Website (transitioning from Cold Fusion/MySQL to PHP) in compliance with BU standards.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

The National Science Foundation has released Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age.

Here's an excerpt:

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) held a workshop titled "Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age" on November 12, 2010, to promote international cooperation in such policy areas as the promotion of data access, the development of technical solutions for open data platforms, and attribution for research contributions. This report describes the discussions, findings, and suggestions generated by the distinguished group of international workshop participants. . . .

There was a strong consensus that this vision could be achieved with the help of a concerted, collaborative effort by international funding agencies to:

  1. Establish a system of persistent identifiers for researchers and their outputs;
  2. Develop national and international pilot projects that compare different technical solutions for establishing and maintaining open data platforms, fostering the replication of scientific research, and ensuring attribution for the intellectual contributions of researchers; and
  3. Foster formal and informal training to develop scientists' skills in knowledge and data access, as well as data analysis.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Emerging Technologies Librarian at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting an Emerging Technologies Librarian. Salary range:$105,211-$136,771.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Emerging Technologies Librarian coordinates and facilitates the design, development and deployment of information technology to support a multijurisdictional legal web presence known conceptually as the One World Law Library (OWLL), a portal to and repository of local, state, tribal, national, international legal and legislative information. By aligning with Library of Congress web developments, OWLL leverages semantic and other conceptual and relational web technologies and utilizes content integration strategies such as federated and aggregated searching technologies to provide access to global legislative, legal and law related information. The incumbent collaborates with internal and external information technologists, law librarians and legal and other information professionals to design and implement Library of Congress approved enterprise and information architectures; identifies state-of-the-art web technologies to be deployed by information technologists; coordinates efforts through libraries and information service providers to define and promote national and international metadata and data modeling standards for legal and legislative information.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Data Centres: Their Use, Value and Impact

The Research Information Network has released Data Centres: Their Use, Value and Impact.

Here's an excerpt:

In recent years, the value of data as a primary research output has begun to be increasingly recognised. New technology has made it possible to create, store and reuse datasets, either for new analysis or for combination with other data in order to answer different questions. In the UK, academic researchers, funders and institutions have responded to these possibilities by supporting a number of data centres' organisations with responsibility for supplying research data to the academic community, and in some cases for collecting, storing and curating such data as well. . . .

This study sought to understand usage of UK data centres among researchers, and to examine the impact of such use upon their work. We undertook a series of initial interviews with research funders to understand the role and importance of data and data centres within various academic fields, followed by a survey of the users of five data centres. Finally, through the interviews and surveys, a set of case studies was identified where the data centre had benefited a researcher's work, and in some cases that work had gone on to have an impact in wider society.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication at Oregon State University Libraries

The Oregon State University Libraries are recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication. Degree: “MLS from an ALA-accredited library program or foreign equivalent.”

Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 0007879):

Oregon State University Libraries seeks an innovative, dynamic, and experienced library leader to join the organization's senior leadership team. The Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication will shape the Libraries' digital library strategies as they advance the development and communication of scholarly research and further the University's goal of becoming a top ten land-grant institution. As a member of the senior management team, the AUL for Research and Scholarly Communication will contribute to long-range planning, program development and evaluation, resource development, budget formulation, and allocation of resources in support of the Libraries' mission. He/she will work with department heads to identify and implement the strategic directions for the Center for Digital Scholarship and Services, Emerging Technologies and Services, University Archives, and Special Collections. The AUL must demonstrate a strong commitment to the collaborative development and implementation of innovative digital and web initiatives and services that respond adroitly to all users' evolving needs as researchers and scholars.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (August 31, 2011)

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog is now available. It provides information about new works related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, e-prints, journal articles, magazine articles, technical reports, and white papers.

| New: Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 | Digital Scholarship |

Digital Collections Coordinator at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are recruiting a Digital Collections Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 00870143):

The UWM Libraries currently hosts 27 digital collections via CONTENTdm, developed over the past several years. Digital collections include a wide variety of formats, such as rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, audiovisual materials, and born-digital materials. UWM has a large inventory of materials for future projects as well as commitments to current projects.

The ideal Digital Collections Coordinator requires a combination of excellent project planning and priority-setting skills, ability to communicate and work in a variety of environments with staff, faculty, administrators, colleagues in-depth knowledge and direct experience with digital collection building, copyright, and international standards and trends, solid technical skills, and an intellectual appreciation of special collections in all formats and the context of their organization and use. The Digital Collections staff consists of full-time and part-time staff and has traditionally included a number of students, interns, and field workers. This position is responsible for providing excellent customer service in a professional manner and serving as a model representative of UWM and the Libraries.

The Digital Collections Coordinator reports to the Assistant Director of Systems and Digital Initiatives.

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McIntyre Library at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Open Access Declaration

The faculty of the McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have adopted an open access declaration.

Here's an excerpt:

It should come as no surprise that as librarians, we are not only committed to providing our student and researchers with open access to scholarly content, but equally focused on disseminating our own scholarship through open access options.

It is important, however, to point out that while we are committed to open access we also understand the costs associated with publishing scholarly works. It is our goal to work closely with publishers in order to carefully balance our rights as authors and copyright holders with the needs of publishers.

Be it therefore resolved that the undersigned faculty librarians of the W.D. McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire are committed to open access and will strive to achieve open access for our own scholarly publications.

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Manton Digital Production Manager at Dartmouth College Library

The Dartmouth College Library is recruiting a Manton Digital Production Manager. Degree: "A Masters degree in library science, information technology, or advanced certification in digitization or project management required."

Here's an excerpt from the ad (position number: 1011078):

The Dartmouth College Library seeks an innovator to design, build, and supervise digital production in support of the Library's mission to further teaching and research. As the Library embarks on an expanded program to digitize material from its collections and to support digital publishing, this job will offer a creative manager the opportunity to develop efficient production workflows for a variety of media. Reporting to the Head of Preservation Services, the position will work collaboratively and closely with library staff across the system, including Preservation, Cataloging, Special Collections, and the Digital Library Technologies Group.

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Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011

Digital Scholarship has released the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011. This 96-page book presents over 600 English-language articles, books, technical reports, and other works that are useful in understanding institutional repositories and ETDs. It covers institutional repository (IR) country and regional surveys, multiple-institution repositories, specific IRs, IR digital preservation issues, IR library issues, IR metadata strategies, institutional open access mandates and policies, IR R&D projects, IR research studies, IR open source software, and electronic theses and dissertations. Most sources have been published from 2000 through June 30, 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. Many references have links to freely available copies of included works.

The Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 is available as a $9.95 paperback (ISBN: 146377429X) and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

For further information about Digital Scholarship publications, see the "Digital Scholarship Publications Overview" and "Reviews of Digital Scholarship Publications."

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Web and Information Designer at Texas A&M University Libraries

The Texas A&M University Libraries are recruiting a Web and Information Designer. Degree: "Bachelor's degree or any equivalent combination of training and experience (one year of experience may substitute for one year of education)." Salary: $43,000-$48,000.

Here's an excerpt from the ad (N.O.V. number: 111022):

Design, create, format, and produce high-quality, original, web-based designs for the Libraries' open-source and commercial subscription resources, including: the website, single search, federated search, Open URL link resolver, library catalogs, interlibrary loan, intranet, etc. Work in a team environment to assist in all facets of work supporting the Libraries' web services, including information architecture, web standards, and trend research. Collaborate with on-campus clients and web developers to develop user interface requirements. Define, prototype (with wire frames), and document highly usable, accessible, and mobile-friendly interfaces to meet those requirements. Support the Libraries digital signage system—both displays and touch screens. Other duties as required.

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