Year: 2014

Digital Services Librarian at Sheldon Margen Public Health Library

The Sheldon Margen Public Health Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian.

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Under the general direction of the Head of the Public Health Library and the Head of Library Applications and Publishing, the Digital Services Librarian will be responsible for managing the Public Health Library's enterprise IT services (40%) and engaging in instructional design and outreach to the Public Health community (60%). The management of IT services includes oversight of content and design, as well as close collaboration with University Library IT to ensure that the web services are in compliance with security, service continuity and service quality standards. The position will also serve a digital instruction role, creating and maintaining web content including digital learning objects and engaging in outreach efforts with Public Health patrons and communities.

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"Impact of Public Domain Resources On Public Libraries in the United States"

Anne Arendt and Dustin Fife have published "Impact of Public Domain Resources On Public Libraries in the United States" in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

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Ownership and rights issues relating to electronic resources can be a source of angst, confusion and litigation. This is due in part to the automatic copyright many individuals receive, including in the United States, upon creation of an original work. However, there are options available for relaxing these rights. One of these options is Creative Commons Zero. . . . Based on the above, this document researches the awareness, complexity and effects of Creative Commons Zero and related licenses on libraries as perceived by library directors and managers across the United States. In order to accomplish this, a quantitative survey was administered in an anonymous web-based format.

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Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives at San Jose State University Library

The San Jose State University Library is recruiting an Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives.

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This Associate Dean will provide leadership in conceptualizing and implementing new digital initiatives that best serve our students and faculty. We are looking for someone with a vision for incorporating leading-edge technology and services into the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. library. A priority for this position, is putting these advanced technologies directly into the hands of students to give them a competitive advantage in their work. The Associate Dean, as the digital initiatives leader for the library, will use his/her knowledge of current and emerging technologies and concepts to keep core systems and initiatives effective, evolving, and nimble; to take full advantage of innovative technical opportunities; to inform the library management, faculty, and staff of new technology options; and to continue expanding our digital initiatives.

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"E-Science as a Catalyst for Transformational Change in University Research Libraries"

Mary E. Piorun has self-archived her dissertaion "E-Science as a Catalyst for Transformational Change in University Research Libraries."

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Changes in how research is conducted, from the growth of e-science to the emergence of big data, have lead to new opportunities for librarians to become involved in the creation and management of research data, at the same time the duties and responsibilities of university libraries continue to evolve. This study examines those roles related to e-science while exploring the concept of transformational change and leadership issues in bringing about such a change. Using the framework established by Levy and Merry for first- and second-order change, four case studies of libraries whose institutions are members in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are developed.

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Digital Curation News (2/18/2014) #digitalpreservation

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Application Programmer at Michigan Publishing

Michigan Publishing is recruiting an Application Programmer.

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Michigan Publishing seeks an Application Programmer to design and develop a variety of software systems to transform the practices of scholarly publishing. As a member of the Publishing Technology team, you'll create new applications for web delivery of content and office productivity tools to enhance production workflow, maintain and improve existing systems, and take part in experiments with new, better, more open models for scholarly publishing.

This is a full-time, TWO YEAR, TERM-LIMITED position with the possibility for renewal.

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Columbia University’s School of Social Work Adopts Open Access Policy

Columbia University's School of Social Work has adopted an open access policy.

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Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) is pleased to announce that the School of Social Work at Columbia University has implemented an open access resolution, in which all faculty and staff have resolved that they commit to making their scholarly works accessible to the public. The policy went into immediate effect after Social Work faculty voted unanimously in favor of the resolution at their faculty meeting on December 2, 2013. . . .

The implementation of the School of Social Work open access resolution comes after the recent adoption of an open access resolution at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health in May 2013, which was the first school at the university to make scholarly research available to the public and free online. The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory became the first program at Columbia to adopt an open access resolution in January 2011, which was followed by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' adoption of a policy in June 2011.

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Drupal Developer—Digital User Experience at Denver Public Library

Denver Public Library is recruiting a Drupal Developer—Digital User Experience.

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Collaborate with the Digital User Experience team to build world-class websites for a world-class city. Develop and maintain dynamic public-facing websites. Consult with users and staff to identify user problems and design systems. Develop or modify new or existing web applications programs of moderate complexity and scope. Use software development standards to develop and test code and write documentation.

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"SCOAP3 Lifts Off: An Interview with Ann Okerson"

David Wojick has published "SCOAP3 Lifts Off: An Interview with Ann Okerson" in The Scholarly Kitchen.

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Q: SCOAP3 seems pretty complicated to me. As I understand it they make deals with leading particle physics journals, so that when those libraries that participate in SCOAP3 pay the article publishing charges, everyone's subscription price is either lowered or eliminated, depending on whether some or all of the articles are paid for. Is that correct?

A: Roughly put, that's true. "They" are "we" in this case. Let me note here that without the interest and participation of the publishers, SCOAP3 would not have launched on January 1st, already with hundreds of 2014 articles in the SCOAP3 repository at CERN and now flowing in on a daily basis. The SCOAP3 Technical Working Group developed, in conjunction with the Steering Committee, a set of criteria that formed the basis for publisher participation. Publishers received the Invitation to Tender and responded by describing in detail the way in which they would participate and at what cost per article.

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Digital Curation News (2/17/2014) #digitalpreservation

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IT Specialist (Internet) at Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is recruiting an IT Specialist (Internet).

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Full-Time, Temporary, NTE 1 Year – This is not a Federal Position, but has similar requirements and benefits. . . .

–Collaborates with managers and content contributors to understand the goals and strategies behind unit web sites, to provide strategic analysis and recommendations pertaining to the disciplines of web construction, website platform migration, web analytics and search engine optimization, resulting in measurable improvements in website architecture, content delivery and web services performance, indexing strategies on major search engines, web security measures and user satisfaction.

–Serves as the technical lead in all project areas of web technology, assisting, guiding and training junior staff with development and deployment project issues.

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Assistant Director of Digital Strategies at Houston Public Library

Houston Public Library is recruiting an Assistant Director of Digital Strategies.

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The Houston Public Library (HPL) is seeking a dynamic information technology professional to provide visionary and transformational leadership in today's digital library environment while envisioning and preparing for the library of the future. This individual is strategic, creative, and results-driven with extensive experience in providing support for public services, especially in a system with multiple locations; and has deep knowledge in operational improvement and change management.

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Anne Kenney Given 2014 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award

Anne Kenney has been given the 2014 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award.

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Anne R. Kenney, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has been named the 2014 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The American Library Association (ALA) will present the award to Kenney at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas this summer. Kenney is being honored for her innovative achievements and service to the profession, especially her leadership on such projects as 2CUL, arXiv, Project Euclid, and Making of America; her work on large-scale digitization and digital preservation standards; and her global contributions in Myanmar, Cuba, China, and elsewhere.

See also: "Anne R. Kenney Wins 2014 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award."

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Only 20.56 % of Jounals in DOAJ Use CC BY or CC BY-SA License

The post "CC-BY Dominates under the Creative Commons licensed Journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)" analyzes the use of Creative Commons licences by journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

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A total of 2,016 (or 20.56 %) of the guided journal in DOAJ therefore use a license (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA), which is compatible with the requirements of the Open Definition and allow a restriction-free use of the contents within the meaning of Open Access defined the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the RCUK Open Access policy and the Berlin Declaration.

If we consider the subset of journals that use any CC license that the claims of the Open Definition sufficient licenses dominate even slightly: About 54% of all journals that use a CC license , use either CC-BY ( 52.77 %) or CC-BY-SA (1.40 %). Surprisingly low is the proportion of journals which use the most restrictive CC license CC-BY-NC-ND : Only 737 journals (7.52 % of all journals and 19.80% under the CC-licensed journals). This license variant neither allows edits or allows to create derivative works (such as translations) nor a commercial use is possible. Surprisingly allow more than half (2,060, 55.35 %) of which is under a CC license Journals a commercial exploitation of the contents, only 44.65% (1662) prohibit this.

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PHP Developer & Application Support at BC Libraries Cooperative

The BC Libraries Cooperative is recruiting a PHP Developer & Application Support specialist.

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We are seeking a person with strong PHP skills to continue building out our numerous WordPress services, as well as a number of emerging Drupal-based services and other PHP-based applications. In addition to development work, this position will also help administer these applications and provide Tier 2 support to them.

This will be a full-time term position (35 hours/week), posted initially for 12 months with the possibility of renewal.

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E-print Copyright Debate Continues: "Its the Content, Not the Version!"

Kevin Smith has published "Its the Content, Not the Version!" in Scholarly Communications @ Duke.

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Throughout this discussion, the proponents of the position that copyright is transferred only in a final version really do not make any legal arguments as such, just an assertion of what they wish were the situation (I wish it were too). But here is a legal point—the U.S. copyright law makes the difficulty with this position pretty clearly in section 202 when it states the obvious principle that copyright is distinct from any particular material object that embodies the copyrighted work. So it is simply not true to say that version A has a copyright and version B has a different copyright.

See also: "Where Copyrights Come from (Part I)—Copyediting Does–Not–Create a New Copyright" by Nancy Sims.

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eJournal Preservation Librarian at Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries are recruiting an eJournal Preservation Librarian.

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This is a temporary grant-funded position running through April 30, 2015 (with the possibility of extension) created to review titles within the 2CUL holdings that do not have adequate preservation plans. The goal of the position is to expand the number and extent of e-journal preservation coverage by supplying tested preservation strategies to selected categories of selected e-journals.

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Omeka 2.1.4 Released

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has released Omeka 2.1.4.

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This maintenance release includes some style additions and corrections in the admin theme, as well as a fix to how records are sorted for newer versions of MySQL. . .

Updated versions of the COinS and Exhibit Builder plugins are also bundled with this release, fixing an error in COinS for PHP 5.2. The updated Exhibit Builder plugin improves many parts of the styling, especially across interaction with many plugins, and expands the data returned by the API.

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Digital Curation News (2/6/2014) #digitalpreservation

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Software Project Manager at BC Libraries Cooperative

The BC Libraries Cooperative is recruiting a Software Project Manager.

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One of our emerging services is the Canadian Accessible Library System (CALS) which the Co-op is developing to support the National Network for Equitable Library Service (http://nnels.ca/). CALS is a repository of accessible library resources for visually-impaired patrons, the first of its kind in Canada. . . .

The Co-op is hiring an experienced Software Project Manager to drive the development process and to improve and extend implementation of the Drupal-based (CALS) system. The Project Manager will liaise with stakeholders and service partners including designers, developers, alternate format producers and others in the public sector—especially members of the broader public library community.

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NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition

The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition.

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This eleventh edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning

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Senior Software Developer at Northwestern University Library

The Northwestern University Library is recruiting a Senior Software Developer.

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The Senior Software Developer is a 3-year term position that serves as the Library Services Platform software developer reporting to the Head of the Library Technology Division's Enterprise Systems department, and confers with the Library Collection Services Project Manager. This job includes working in a highly collaborative environment with Library colleagues and partners on the analysis, design, coding and testing of software in order to explore, adapt, and implement current and emerging technologies particularly with implementation, integration with campus Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other systems, and developing software components in support of a Library Services Platform.

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Wellcome Library Releases Digital Asset Player and Timeline Software

The Wellcome Library has released a digital asset player and timeline software.

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What does it feel like to interact with a digital version of a book? How can we replicate the experience of working with physical collections&—on the web? What features will enhance a researcher's experience of using digital collections? . . .

We asked these big questions, along with innumerable others, during the development of the Wellcome Library's "digital asset player" and interactive timeline. Now we are offering the player and timeline software to you.

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