Year: 2013

Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services are recruiting a Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to CDRS' director, this newly created position will be responsible for devising, implementing, and leading outreach activities promoting CDRS' digital projects, the institutional repository, and scholarly communication initiatives on campus, helping to position CDRS and CUL/IS as key partners in the understanding, creation, and adoption of new modes of scholarly communication. In particular, the Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager will be expected to advance access to locally created online publications, conference proceedings, electronic theses and dissertations, Columbia-produced journals, data sets, born-digital research output, and other digital content and to strengthen the linchpin role of the institutional repository, Academic Commons, as a research platform.

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Web Content Strategist at University of Arizona Libraries

The University of Arizona Libraries are recruiting a Web Content Strategist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

You will work with project members and stakeholders to re-write, re-think, and re-organize content across the website, as well as workflows related to the lifecycle of web content. There are also many smaller websites and tools that require sensible workflows more usable content and other adjustments to achieve a consistent voice.

The Web Content Strategist advises on issues related to content, working on all aspects of the project and contributes to developing a strategy across other channels as needed, such as email notifications and communications, videos, tutorials, and other websites and tools managed by the Libraries.

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"Metadata is a Love Note to the Future—UK Higher Education Research Data Management (RDM) Survey"

Martin Hamilton has released "Metadata is a Love Note to the Future—UK Higher Education Research Data Management (RDM) Survey."

Here's an excerpt:

I'm delighted to be able to present here the results of our recent survey of the UK Higher Education community's plans for Research Data Management, along with a little initial analysis and an executive summary. To stay true to the spirit of openness, we have made a redacted version of the raw data available, along with our analysis, using the figshare cloud RDM service.

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Systems Engineer at Virginia Tech Libraries

The Virginia Tech Libraries are recruiting two Systems Engineers.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Incumbents will develop systems that: 1) enable data integration across distributed and heterogeneous local and external data sources to maximize data use and reuse in applications, and 2) support digital preservation strategies and repository systems research, development, and implementation. Primary responsibilities include leading technical contributions, such as data architecture design, data integration, system design and testing, and applications development, implementation, administration, and support, for data publishing and preservation projects (initial focus on VIVO and Fedora). Additional responsibilities include ensuring systems compatibility to meet project/program functionality, technical, and design specifications, and scheduling objectives; collaborating with colleagues in the Libraries and at other institutions in delivering system and web development projects; providing informed IT-related advice for Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) projects; liaising with CDRS and Information Technologies and Services (ITS) personnel for planning and service development; participating in selected cross-Libraries working groups to improve systems and services; providing training to Libraries personnel (and library users where appropriate); participating in various systems engineering projects as a result of developments and changes in Library services.

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"The Seer of Science Publishing"

Tania Rabesandratana has published "The Seer of Science Publishing" in a special issue of Science on "Communication in Science: Pressures and Predators".

Here's an excerpt:

"Nobody reads journals," says science publisher Vitek Tracz, who has made a fortune from journals. "People read papers." Tracz sees a grim future for what has been the mainstay of scientific communication, the peer-reviewed print journal.

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MS Digital Library Coordinator at University of Southern Mississippi Libraries

The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries are recruiting a MS Digital Library Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direct supervision of the Manager for Finance and Technology, who also serves as the Director of the Mississippi Digital Library, the incumbent performs support functions for the Mississippi Digital Library. The incumbent also assists with digitizing the university Libraries' collections.

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2013 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals

Allen Press has released the 2013 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals.

Here's an excerpt:

This study aims to provide information to society and association publishers on pricing and library budget trends, strategies libraries use for cost containment, content selection and cancellation criteria, access preferences, and user behavior.

The Allen Press panel and several other studies done in 2012 highlight that librarians use a variety of strategies to work within budgets that are not improving significantly. The following is a review of scholarly journal price trends during the past year. The data presented in this study summarize historical prices of approximately 200 publications appearing in the Allen Press Buyer’s Guide to Scientific, Medical, and Scholarly Journals.

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Digital Projects Librarian at Kent State University Libraries

Kent State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Kent State University Libraries seeks an experienced and creative Digital Projects Librarian (DPL) who will be responsible for the research, planning, execution and management of digital projects throughout the University Libraries' environment. The DPL will work with programmers and applications in a complex production environment. S/he will work closely with Library and University-wide clients, colleagues and team members to understand and satisfy complex digital project requirements and provide quality technical solutions to the University community. The position is a 12-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position that reports to the Head of Systems.

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"Fedora Commons with Apache Hadoop: A Research Study"

Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed have published "Fedora Commons with Apache Hadoop: A Research Study" in the latest issue of Code4Lib Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

The Digital Collections digital repository at the University of Maryland Libraries is growing and in need of a new backend storage system to replace the current filesystem storage. Though not a traditional storage management system, we chose to evaluate Apache Hadoop because of its large and growing community and software ecosystem. Additionally, Hadoop's capabilities for distributed computation could prove useful in providing new kinds of digital object services and maintenance for ever increasing amounts of data. We tested storage of Fedora Commons data in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) using an early development version of Akubra-HDFS interface created by Frank Asseg. This article examines the findings of our research study, which evaluated Fedora-Hadoop integration in the areas of performance, ease of access, security, disaster recovery, and costs.

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Librarian III, Digital Curation Services at University of Texas at Austin Libraries

The University of Texas at Austin Libraries are recruiting a Librarian III, Digital Curation Services.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Manage the Digital Curation Services department. Establish priorities, manage projects, and coordinate cross-departmental workflows. Design and implement metadata specifications for digital projects, including creating application profiles, crosswalking, and ensuring consistency of metadata strategies across a wide variety of projects and processes that rely on metadata. Supervise Digital Repository Librarian and Digital Archivist. Work within the Libraries' decentralized digital production environment. Facilitate communication between staff across the Libraries and other departments across campus working on digital projects, ensuring stakeholders remain informed and engaged. Represent activities and needs in the Libraries' strategic planning and ensure that digital curation issues are reflected in broader organizational policies and procedures. Responsible for understanding emerging trends in digital collection creation and management and for developing solutions that meet the needs of users in an academic research environment in collaboration with other UT Libraries units.

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Yolanda Cooper Named University Librarian at Emory University

Yolanda Cooper has been named University Librarian at Emory University.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Cooper will join Emory from the University of Miami, where she has most recently served as librarian associate professor, deputy university librarian, and acting dean and university librarian.

On Jan. 15, Cooper will step into the new role leading the Emory Libraries—part of a broad, overall organizational restructuring implemented under the leadership of Rich Mendola, enterprise chief information officer and senior vice provost of library services and digital scholarship, that has combined Emory's library and informational technology organizations and reflects the increasingly important relationship between digital technologies and research libraries. . . .

Cooper has 25 years of administrative experience in university libraries across five research library systems.

At the University of Miami, Cooper has been responsible for services, programming and operations of all libraries on the Coral Gables and Virginia Key campuses. Her background also includes work with research library systems at Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Virginia, the University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Illinois, Urbana.

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Digital Repository Software Developer at Princeton University

Princeton University's Office of Information Technology is recruiting a Digital Repository Software Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This is a 3 year term position.

The Office of Information Technology seeks a Digital Repository Software Developer to establish and enhance digital repositories to house academic publications, research data, and related digital assets. The primary focus of the position will be to develop software and systems for collecting and depositing academic journal articles subject to Princeton University's Open Access Policy for Faculty Publications into an open access repository.

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Altmetrics Bibliography

Digital Scholarship has released the Altmetrics Bibliography, which includes over 50 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics.

The "altmetrics" concept is still evolving. In "The Altmetrics Collection," Jason Priem, Paul Groth, and Dario Taraborelli define altmetrics as follows:

Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments. The term has also been used to describe the metrics themselves—one could propose in plural a "set of new altmetrics." Altmetrics is in most cases a subset of both scientometrics and webometrics; it is a subset of the latter in that it focuses more narrowly on scholarly influence as measured in online tools and environments, rather than on the Web more generally.

Sources have been published from January 2001 through September 2013.

The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works. If such versions are unavailable, italicized links to the publishers' descriptions are provided.

It is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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Digital Projects Developer at Historic New England

Historic New England is recruiting a Digital Projects Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Serving as part of the organization's information technology team, the digital projects developer will be an expert coder with the ability to craft elegant technology solutions for a complex, multi-site cultural heritage organization. Will execute, oversee or assist with projects related to systems integration, digital asset management, electronic records management, website development, database management, and intranet development, including support of Historic New England's ongoing Collections Access Project. Will be responsible for identifying technology needs and developing project plans, coordinating with technology vendors, developing and customizing software solutions, and creating complete and accurate documentation for completed solutions.

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Media Digitization Specialist at Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame

The Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame are recruiting a Media Digitization Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Working within the program for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, the Digitization Specialist produces digital surrogates from a variety of still image, text, and other formats from Library and other University holdings. S/he creates digital surrogates according to established standards to meet Hesburgh Libraries’ goals for digitizing resources. This position reports to the program co-director for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, but works closely with the Metadata & Digital Projects Librarian and other staff for work assignments and quality controls.

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Digital Archivist at Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Preserve, describe, and provide access to primary source digital materials, both born digital and digital content created in house. Develop processes for archiving and preserving digital material that exist on email, websites, social media as well as material residing on current or legacy formats. Prepare digital content with rigorous attention to metadata creation and oversee digitization operations and workflows. Work with staff to develop a digital repository for assets, participate in collections development, donor relations, assessments, and acquisition. Participate in reference desk rotation, assist in transferring archival collections to the Center, with some occasional travel as needed. Deliver digital content to external discovery and delivery mechanisms in collaboration with the Center's web team. Assist with the research and implementation of information architecture and emerging technologies.

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"Serials Price Projections for 2014"

EBSCO has released its "Serials Price Projections for 2014."

Here's an excerpt from the press release:

For 2014, the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries are expected to be in the range of 6 to 8 percent (before currency impact).

The projected mid-single digit serial price increases indicate that the ongoing initiatives and debates in the academic publishing world are having very little impact on fundamental business models and pricing strategies. Librarians and smaller publishers will continue to face difficult choices as the renewal of individual journal titles and other non-bundled content is balanced with the ongoing obligations of e-journal package or "Big Deal" content.

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Digital Archivist at DePaul University Libraries

The DePaul University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist will report to the Head of Special Collections and Archives. The Digital Archivist will work collaboratively across the library and the University to expand the library's capacity to responsibly acquire born-digital archival content, manage existing digital holdings, and ensure the effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, future migration, access to and security of digital archives. In addition, the Digital Archivist will engage library and campus partners and provide guidance on best practices for data management, training and development. The Digital Archivist may serve as a liaison librarian in assigned areas.

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