Suzie Allard has published "Placements & Salaries 2016: Explore All the Data" in Library Journal.
Here's an excerpt:
Dig through these tables to discover the details about where 2015 LIS grads are landing jobs, at what salaries, and in what kinds of roles, or see the full feature for all the analysis.
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In September, I continued to transform public domain photos into oil paintings, pastel drawings, watercolor paintings, and other types of noncommercial artworks using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size images (8×10" or 8×12") and descriptions of the processing steps involved are available on Flickr.
Digital Oil Painting of El Morro
Digital Pastel Drawing of the Place Tourny in Bordeaux
Mixed Media Drawing of Sixth Avenue
Digital Pastel Drawing of Mount Shasta
Digital Watercolor Painting of Snow Geese
Digital Pastel Drawing of a Sunset at Adak Island
Digital Mixed Media Drawing of Valley Gardens in Harrogate
The University of Rochester is recruiting a Library Solutions Analyst (Information Analyst II).
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Based in the Information Discovery Team, the Library Solutions Analyst will use a project management framework to design and implement specific technical/computer related aspects of solutions to improve staff workflows, including but not limited to digital document management and tools to support RCL's teaching and learning activities and online scholarly resources (LibGuides, LibCal, AIMS, Omeka, Islandora, etc.). This staff member works closely with the stakeholders to ensure cost effective technology solutions meet the needs of staff, and that solutions are aligned with RCL strategic priorities.
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Andrew Lockett and Lara Speicher have published "New University Presses in the UK: Accessing a Mission" in Learned Publishing.
Here's an excerpt:
In the space of just a year, five new university presses were launched in the UK. Although very different in size and stages of development, all but one were launched first and foremost as open access presses, based in or supported by their university's library. Why should there have been such a significant flurry of activity in such a short space of time, and what can the stated objectives and activities of these presses tell us about the current UK scholarly publishing environment? To answer some of those questions, this article looks back to the original mission of the founding university presses, examines the policy and funding environments in which the new presses are operating, looks at overseas developments in recent years for comparison, and concludes with a review of the challenges these young presses face as well as the benefits all university presses, but particularly open access ones, can confer to their institutions.
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Drexel University is recruiting a Digital Repository Application Developer, Library.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Drexel University Libraries seeks a collaborative and creative professional to develop solutions for managing digital collections, research data, university records, and digital scholarship. Working primarily with our Islandora implementation, this position will play a key role as the Libraries advance preservation services and public access for a wide array of digital content including books, articles, images, journals, newspapers, audio, video, and datasets.
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Charles Watkinson has published "Why Marriage Matters: A North American Perspective on Press/Library Partnerships" in Learned Publishing.
Here's an excerpt:
Key points
- Around 30% of campus-based members of the Association of American University Presses now report to libraries, more than double the number 5 years ago.
- Beyond reporting relationships, physical collocation and joint strategic planning characterize the most integrated press/library partnerships.
- The main mutual advantages of deep press/library collaboration are economic efficiency, greater relevance to parent institutions, and an increased capacity to engage with the changing needs of authors in the digital age.
- There is emerging interest in collaboration at scale among libraries and presses that may extend the impact of press/library collaboration beyond single institutions.
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New Mexico State University is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Digital Projects Librarian manages digital projects as assigned, providing leadership and technical expertise to ensure their successful completion. The librarian works closely and collaboratively with a variety of individuals involved in the collections-based projects to plan and implement, including identifying resource needs, establishing and maintaining schedules, workflows, and procedures documentation. Working in conjunction with others, perform extension and outreach to the library's diverse constituencies to promote digital initiatives and develop partnership opportunities.
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Jisc has released Investigating OA Monograph Services: Final Report.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
Overall, the project 'Investigating OA monographs services' has produced some extremely valuable guides in areas where no information (specifically for OA monographs) existed and identified some very strong areas where collaboration and experimentation could simultaneously bring real value to OA monograph publishers and the authors and readers of monographs.
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The National Archives and Records Administration is recruiting a Conservator (Digitization).
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
In this position, you will serve as a Conservator with a focus on conservation digitization coordination with Research Services, Preservation Programs Division, Conservation Branch, located in College Park, MD.
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Lorcan Dempsey has published "Library Collections in the Life of the User: Two Directions" in .
Here's an excerpt:
The paper considers how the changing nature of research in digital environments is reshaping the nature of library collections and services in academic and research libraries. It describes two central directions, each a response to the centrality of the user in a network environment. First, the library has an increasing role in managing the research and other outputs of the university (the inside-out collection). Second, the library is facilitating access to a broader range of local, external and collaborative resources organized around user needs (the facilitated collection).
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Health Information Technology Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Health Information Technology Librarian will expand the library's support of health informatics and analytics, mHealth, electronic medical records, and related fields to advance teaching and learning, research, and clinical care. This position will play a key role in investigating current and future needs within health affairs, taking stock of our current services, and finding new ways to assist our partners in these rapidly growing and evolving fields.
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Patrick Obrien et al. have published "Undercounting File Downloads from Institutional Repositories" in the Journal of Library Administration.
Here's an excerpt:
A primary impact metric for institutional repositories (IR) is the number of file downloads, which are commonly measured through third-party Web analytics software. Google Analytics, a free service used by most academic libraries, relies on HTML page tagging to log visitor activity on Google's servers. However, Web aggregators such as Google Scholar link directly to high value content (usually PDF files), bypassing the HTML page and failing to register these direct access events. This article presents evidence of a study of four institutions demonstrating that the majority of IR activity is not counted by page tagging Web analytics software, and proposes a practical solution for significantly improving the reporting relevancy and accuracy of IR performance metrics using Google Analytics.
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Indiana University Bloomington is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Head, Scholarly Communications, this position provides operational oversight for specific areas of the Library's scholarly communications program. This is an IUB Libraries' assistant/associate librarian appointment with its attendant responsibilities and privileges and works directly with faculty and researchers to provide services focusing on publishing and disseminating scholarly materials and adopting practices that maximize the impact of faculty research and writing while protecting their intellectual property. Working in collaboration with liaison librarians, this individual will lead efforts to educate and advise the campus community on issues of open access, Creative Commons and other alternative licensing models, digital publication, open textbooks and other open educational resources, and alternative metrics for measuring research impact.
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Christine L. Borgman et al. has published "Data Management in the Long Tail: Science, Software, and Service" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.
Here's an excerpt:
Scientists in all fields face challenges in managing and sustaining access to their research data. The larger and longer term the research project, the more likely that scientists are to have resources and dedicated staff to manage their technology and data, leaving those scientists whose work is based on smaller and shorter term projects at a disadvantage. The volume and variety of data to be managed varies by many factors, only two of which are the number of collaborators and length of the project. As part of an NSF project to conceptualize the Institute for Empowering Long Tail Research, we explored opportunities offered by Software as a Service (SaaS). These cloud-based services are popular in business because they reduce costs and labor for technology management, and are gaining ground in scientific environments for similar reasons. We studied three settings where scientists conduct research in small and medium-sized laboratories. Two were NSF Science and Technology Centers (CENS and C-DEBI) and the third was a workshop of natural reserve scientists and managers. These laboratories have highly diverse data and practices, make minimal use of standards for data or metadata, and lack resources for data management or sustaining access to their data, despite recognizing the need. We found that SaaS could address technical needs for basic document creation, analysis, and storage, but did not support the diverse and rapidly changing needs for sophisticated domain-specific tools and services. These are much more challenging knowledge infrastructure requirements that require long-term investments by multiple stakeholders.
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Vassar College is recruiting a Digital Library Developer.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The successful candidate will be a critical team member of the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services Department, creating and maintaining applications (particularly web applications) that provide current services and make feature-rich new ones come to life. Our department provides digital scholarship, digital library, repository, and technology services to the Libraries and the College and closely collaborates with IT and academic computing groups on campus.
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SCOAP3 has released "SCOAP3 Journals Double Downloads."
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The four largest journals participating in SCOAP3, two published by Elsevier and two by SpringerNature in partnership with the Italian Physical Society (SIF), and the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies (SISSA) have now analysed their logs to understand the impact of SCOAP3.
Elsevier announced that downloads to their two journals, Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B have doubled since they became Open Access at the start of SCOAP3 in January 2014. This increase is remarkable as SCOAP3 covers the most recent 3,500 articles in the journals, while most of the historic content of over 77,000 articles, is available to subscribers.
SpringerNature announced that since January 2014 they have observed a doubling of downloads across their two learned-society journals participating in SCOAP3: European Physical Journal C and the Journal of High Energy Physics.
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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona University is recruiting a Digital Services & Technology Librarian .
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona University Library is seeking a dynamic and innovative librarian to play a leadership role in planning, implementing, and supporting digital collections and services including the coordinating and functioning of Bronco Scholar, the university's institutional repository; providing vision and direction for all aspects of the Library's website; and working collaboratively with library staff and others to design, develop, and provide ongoing maintenance for the library's digital resources and digital collections.
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IMLS has released "Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities: New Grant Opportunity."
Here's an excerpt:
Through Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities, IMLS will be able to support innovative collaborations between museum or library professionals and humanities professionals to advance the preservation of, access to, use of, and engagement with, digital collections and services. Through this partnership, IMLS and NEH will jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects (link is external) that involve collaborations with museums and/or libraries in support of the National Digital Platform effort.
These projects will advance the IMLS mission of improving broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage, and lifelong learning. Through this partnership, IMLS funds will support Level I and II projects that involve collaborations with museums and/or libraries. Level I projects (from $5,000 to $40,000) are small grants designed to fund exploratory sessions, workshops, early alpha-level prototypes, and initial planning. Level II projects (from $40,001 to $75,000) can be used for more fully-formed projects that are ready to begin implementation or demonstrate proofs of concept.
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Ripley Entertainment Inc. is recruiting a Digital Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
As part of the Intellectual Property/Content Management team the Digital Librarian will administer digital asset workflows, as well as monitor physical inventory. Ripley content is both interesting and unique and ranges from historical Robert Ripley photos to a variety of attraction branding and publishing media. The Digital Librarian will use company data and content management systems to maintain and distribute content within the company and outside agencies.
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Stephen Abrams et al. have published "Dash: Data Sharing Made Easy at the University of California" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.
Here's an excerpt:
While the UC Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library supports a growing roster of innovative curation services for University use, most were intended originally to meet the needs of institutional information professionals, such as librarians, archivists, and curators. In order to address the new curation concerns of individual scholars, UC3 realized that it needed to deploy new systems and services optimized for stakeholders with widely divergent experiences, expertise, and expectations. This led to the development of Dash, an online data publication service making campus data sharing easy. While Dash gives the appearance of being a full-fledged repository, in actuality it is only a lightweight overlay layer that sits on top of standards-compliant repositories, such as UC3's existing Merritt curation repository. The Dash service offers intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces for dataset submission, description, publication, and discovery. By imposing minimal prescriptive eligibility and submission requirements; automating and hiding the mechanical details of DOI assignment, data packaging, and repository deposit; and featuring a streamlined, self-service user experience that can be integrated easily into scholarly workflows, Dash is an important new service offering with which UC scholars can meet their RDM obligations.
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Our Lady of the Lake University is recruiting a Head of Library Systems and Electronic Resource Management.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Dean of the University Library and working closely with other library managers, the Systems & ERM Librarian position is a position provides technical expertise, day-to-day administration, and broad support for traditional and emerging library software solutions and standards. . . . This will include first-line support as well as maintenance and implementation in a broad range of systems with primary, sustained focus on the integrated library system (SirsiDynix Symphony) and Worldshare Discovery.
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Nadine Levin et al. have published "How Do Scientists Define Openness? Exploring the Relationship between Open Science Policies and Research Practice " in the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Here's an excerpt:
This article documents how biomedical researchers in the United Kingdom understand and enact the idea of "openness." . . . This study is based on 22 in-depth interviews with U.K. researchers in systems biology, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics, which were conducted between September 2013 and February 2014. Through an analysis of the interview transcripts, we identify seven core themes that characterize researchers' understanding of openness in science and nine factors that shape the practice of openness in research.
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Columbia University is recruiting a Research Support & Data Services Librarian.
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The Research Support & Data Services Librarian is responsible for providing support for social science research, including the use of quantitative and qualitative data and data applications, to faculty, students, and staff, and for identifying and assisting in the implementation of new library technologies related to social science research and data. As a member of the team providing research and data support in the Digital Social Science Center, the incumbent will assist students, faculty, and researchers with research projects and will aid users in finding and using qualitative and quantitative data, including offering training and guidance in the use of data analysis and research software.
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NISO has released Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project.
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The National Information Standards Organization has published NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project. This recommended practice on altmetrics, an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment, was developed by working groups that were part of NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The document outlines altmetrics definitions and use cases, alternative outputs in scholarly communications, data metrics, and persistent identifiers in scholarly communications. This guidance was necessary because, before the project began, scholars had long expressed dissatisfaction with traditional measures of success, such as the Impact Factor, but needed standards relating to other viable assessment methods.
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