Month: February 2015

Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian at Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is recruiting a Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian (DLSL) position is a non-supervisory position that reports to the Digital Learning & Scholarship Team Leader. The DLSL will vision and execute the future for the digital initiatives of the Library, including the institutional repository, data management and digitization best practices. The candidate is expected to work at a high level of performance, working independently and with initiative. The Librarian is responsible for managing a balanced portfolio of three key activities in support of the programs of the Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian: (1) digital research and data management support, (2) relationship management, and (3) digital instruction.

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"Reflections on Library Licensing"

Ann Shumelda Okerson has published "Reflections on Library Licensing" in Information Standards Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

The way libraries acquire basic content for their readers has been completely upended in the last two decades. In this rapid electronic environment, content providers are pressed to enhance and update existing products or to produce competitive new products, with ever-increasing functionality and with great uncertainty about what users will pay for and how much they will pay. At the same time, numerous new producers are entering the electronic marketplace. We are living in an information Wild West, which can put libraries and publishers face to face on Main Street at high noon, often without the third-party subscription agents or book jobbers we used to depend on. This article discusses how we got to this place; whether one should prefer copyright or license; the differing view of rights by authors, publishers, libraries and their end users; different types of licenses; and current issues in licensing.

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COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability

COAR has released COAR Roadmap: Future Directions for Repository Interoperability.

Here's an excerpt:

Scholarly communication is undergoing fundamental changes, in particular with new requirements for open access to research outputs, new forms of peer-review, and alternative methods for measuring impact. In parallel, technical developments, especially in communication and interface technologies facilitate bi-directional data exchange across related applications and systems. The aim of this roadmap is to identify important trends and their associated action points in order for the repository community to determine priorities for further investments in interoperability.

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Managing Open Access Publication: A System Specification

JISC Monitor has released Managing Open Access Publication: A System Specification.

Here's an excerpt:

The purpose of this document is to provide a specification for a system to help UK HE institutions manage administrative data in relation to the publication of open access Academic Outputs. The document is intended to:

  • Describe the scope of such a system and the workflows it should support
  • Describe an appropriate data model given the scope and workflows
  • Provide illustrative wireframes for a user interface (UI) to such a system

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Libraries Web Developer at University of St. Thomas

The University of St. Thomas is recruiting a Libraries Web Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The incumbent serves as the chief technical expert in developing and maintaining the Libraries' digital presence, including the website and associated applications; formatting of the e-resource management and discovery tools; database, subject guide, and scheduling applications; institutional repositories and finding aids; interlibrary loan system; digital and physical signage installations; blog and social media; applications developed for the UST Portal and Blackboard; as well as internally facing tools like intranets or SharePoint sites, shared department folders, and bulk email and survey applications.

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University Archives and Electronic Records Archivist at University of Georgia

The University of Georgia is recruiting a University Archives and Electronic Records Archivist .

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a University Archives and Electronic Records Archivist who will be responsible for the development and management of the University Archives, the historical records of the University of Georgia, and the University Records Management program, which handles official university records as prescribed by state-wide guidelines. This position reports to the Co-Director of Technical Services and University Archives of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The position supervises two full-time and one part-time staff, as well as student employees, and participates in the general activities of the Hargrett Library.

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Digital Curation News (2/6/2015) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #researchdata

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Systems Librarian at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Systems Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of Application Support (Library), the Systems Librarian is a key position with responsibility on providing high-quality, robust systems that facilitate search, discovery, and delivery of library services and resources to the entire Emory university campus. The Systems Librarian works collaboratively with a wide range of libraries and units to support the discoverability of library resources in both the physical and digital realms. The position works as part of a department that provides services to all libraries of Emory University. This enterprise-wide department is a key component of Emory's integrated information technology-library ecosystem.

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"A Proposal for Regularly Updated Review/Survey Articles: ‘Living Reviews’"

David L. Mobley and Daniel M. Zuckerman have self-archived "A Proposal for Regularly Updated Review/Survey Articles: 'Living Reviews'."

Here's an excerpt:

We propose and encourage the publication of review/survey articles that will be updated regularly, both in traditional journals and novel venues. We call these "living reviews." This idea naturally builds on the dissemination and archival capabilities present in the modern internet, and indeed living reviews exist already in some forms. Living review articles allow authors to maintain over time the relevance of non-research scholarship that requires a significant investment of effort. We also envision living reviews leading to the creation of a new category of review—review papers published as living reviews in a purely electronic format without space constraints. This will also permit more pedagogical scholarship and clearer treatment of technical issues that remain obscure in a brief treatment.

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Digital Technologies Development Librarian at NCSU

NCSU is recruiting a Digital Technologies Development Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Library Initiatives department. Digital Library Initiatives develops and delivers an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of library services. As a member of the Digital Services Development group, the Digital Technologies Development Librarian works as an active participant in a team that advances library services through applied research and application development and manages the entire life cycle of projects, from requirements gathering to deployment. The Digital Services Development group has produced a number of unique and widely used systems to improve our service to library users, including the Suma space assessment toolkit, the lentil photographic social media archival collecting system, the Quick Search bento-box style single search system, and the WolfWalk geo-enhanced mobile guide to the history of NCSU. This group is currently developing new projects in areas including library service and resource discovery, assessment and analytics, data visualization, social media archives, research services, and application virtualization.

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"One More Chunk of DOAJ"

Walt Crawford has published "One More Chunk of DOAJ" in Cites & Insights Crawford at Large.

Here's an excerpt:

Because there will be a published concise version of all this stuff—out this summer from ALA's Library Technology Reports, working title "Idealism and Opportunism: The State of Open Access Journals"—I went through 2,200-odd additional DOAJ journals with English as one of the language options (but not the first one), and was able to add 1,507 more entries to my DOAJ master spreadsheet, which now includes 6,490 journals qualifying for full analysis and 811 that don't. This essay offers some summary information on the 1,507 added journals and some overall notes on the full DOAJ set-including some new and replacement tables (there may be errors in tables 2.66 b and c and 2.67 b and c in earlier issues).

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Associate University Librarian—Scholarly Communications at University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is recruiting an Associate University Librarian—Scholarly Communications.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

1. Participate as a senior administrator in the overall management of the library. 2. Assist in the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategic plan, in conjunction with the Dean and other leaders, and ensure that the library is meeting the vision and mission of the university. 3. Provide Libraries' staff with professional development opportunities, motivation, and leadership. 4. Develop library services to more effectively meet the present and future needs of the campus community we serve. 5. Maintains awareness about current and emerging trends in scholarly communication and cultivates and promotes new and progressive models of scholarly communication. 6. Initiates university-wide discussion on scholarly communication, collection assessment, and outreach activities and represents the Libraries in campus-wide planning for scholarly communications initiatives.

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"Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries"

Isaac Gilman has self-archived "Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries."

Here's an excerpt:

For small academic libraries, which are largely absent from ARL-dominated literature on library publishing (with some notable exceptions 14), the decision to pivot towards publishing services leads to several key questions: What skills and resources are needed in order to ensure quality and avoid Daniel Coit Gilman's disdained practice of "printing without publishing"?15) In what ways should the traditional work of the library change in order to accommodate this shift in focus? At the same time, in what ways can the work of publication be connected with traditional work and skills found within the library?

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Emerging Technologies Coordinator at Columbia University

Columbia University is recruiting an Emerging Technologies Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Emerging Technologies Coordinator plays a key role in planning and assessing information services supporting the research, teaching, and learning needs of the Columbia science and engineering community. The position provides proactive, effective technology and research support to students and faculty within the Digital Science Center (DSC) located within the Science and Engineering Library. Reporting to the Director, Science & Engineering Libraries, the Emerging Technologies Coordinator identifies, implements, and assesses technologies for the division, including those supporting data gathering and management, visualization, 3D printing, and other technologies emerging as critical to science and engineering research and teaching.

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JEP Publishes Books in Browsers V Proceedings

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has released its latest issue, which presents the Books in Browsers V proceedings. The articles are primarily in video format

Here's an excerpt from "Editor's Note [18.1]":

While there are a few changes, what remains is the mission of the conference and the consistently high quality of its programming. As Peter Brantley, the driving force behind Books in Browsers, notes, the conference intends to and does "explore how rapidly evolving open web standards can support advanced digital publishing, and in turn how the frontiers of digital publishing design, supporting highly customized authorial intentions, push on our understanding of the nature and corpus of web standards."

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Digital Curation News (2/3/2015) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #researchdata

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Project Manager at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Project Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Michigan Library is seeking a librarian to be a project manager and specialist in the area of digital preservation services. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and other experts on a major initiative to build a new digital library system architecture. The new system will make use of recent developments in the open source community and will handle a wide array of materials: video, music, research data sets, historical records, and more. This is an opportunity to join a skilled and forward-thinking group, and to gain experience with modern technologies that support web-based research and archiving.

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Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grants

The NEH has released information about Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grants.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

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Digital Asset Coordinator at San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony is recruiting a Digital Asset Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Archivist and working collaboratively with staff across the Symphony, the Digital Asset Coordinator will develop sustainable practices and processes to ensure the availability and integrity of digital assets that chronicle the Symphony's history, collections, programs, and operations. The successful applicant will demonstrate experience with a variety of technologies related to digital preservation and the management of digital content in multiple formats, and will keep abreast of new technical information and developments relating to the life cycle of digital objects.

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NC State Offers Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities

NC State University is offering a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The graduate certificate in digital humanities allows degree or non-degree seeking graduate students to design a curriculum of interdisciplinary study at the forefront of digital methods in the humanities. Digital humanities (or "DH") comprises a big tent of diverse disciplinary and technical pursuits, and our certificate program is premised on curricular flexibility to allow students to pursue, with the support of certificate staff and faculty, the innovative opportunities they see for creative, critically-informed, media-inflected research and teaching pursuits in their fields, from the humanities to colleges across the university. Including digitization of cultural heritage materials, studies in media history and technologies, analysis and critique of digital culture, applied programming for analysis and visualization, project management, interface design and user experience, and/or digital pedagogies, the certificate features abundant contexts and skills-training in which to define next-generation teaching and research.

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Digital Archivist at Tufts University

Tufts University is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist is dedicated to the preservation and access of digital and hybrid collections held within Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University. The Digital Archivist's primary focus will be to participate in the continued development and evolution of a digital preservation program within DCA. This work will include developing, implementing, and executing processes enabling effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, access to and security of born-digital and hybrid archival collections acquired by DCA. In particular, the Digital Archivist will lead exploration, evaluation, and implementation of methods, tools, and systems related to the preservation of born-digital content including digital forensics methods, open-source digital preservation systems, and hardware used to transfer data from physical media.

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Data Curation Librarian at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University is recruiting a Data Curation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director of the Institutional Repository (IR), the Data Curation Librarian is responsible for maintaining and managing LSU's IR for both research data and scholarly works. The Data Curation librarian will be responsible for setting up "virtual research environments," or the equivalent, as needed by externally funded research projects using the Islandora framework. This position will manage the Electronic Theses and Dissertations workflows and will work in collaboration with the Graduate School in these efforts. The Data Curation librarian will also provide technical assistance to all digital initiative projects using the IR software.

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