Month: September 2018

Lead Software Engineer at University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Lead Software Engineer.

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You’ll join the Hesburgh Libraries at University of Notre Dame as part of the Digital Library Technology team. We are solution engineers, consulting partners, and explorers in the ever-evolving digital preservation and repository services and community landscape. We develop solutions for digital workflows, preservation, and discovery of collections and research data.

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Digital Library Applications Developer at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Digital Library Applications Developer.

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled programmer to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives including HathiTrust, and the creation of a new system architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus based on Samvera, Fedora. Blacklight, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Solr are also commonly used. T

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"The New Music Modernization Act (Mostly) (Finally) Gets It Right"

Meredith Filak Rose has published "The New Music Modernization Act (Mostly) (Finally) Gets It Right" in the Public Knowledge Blog.

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The new Music Modernization Act sweeps away this old system and replaces it with full federal protection. The terms are still much longer than ideal: the earliest recordings won't hit the public domain until January 2022, while many others will be locked away for a total of 110 years. But the bill also creates, for the first time, a true public domain in sound recordings. . . .

The other important function of the bill is that, for the first time, users will now have a process by which they can use sound recordings, even when the rights holder cannot be found. Anyone wishing to make a noncommercial use of a recording that is no longer commercially available can submit a notice of use at the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Digital Art: July and August’s Oil Paintings and Pastel Drawings

In July and August, I transformed photos into oil paintings and pastel drawings using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size download images (typically 8 x 10 in. or 8 x 12 in.) and descriptions of the processing steps involved are freely available on Flickr. The images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Digital Oil Painting of the Arrow River

Digital Pastel Drawing of the Yukon River

Digital Pastel Drawing of Rain at Sunset in Coconino National Forest

Digital Oil Painting of the Corbiere Lighthouse in Moonlight

Digital Oil Painting of Echo Cliffs

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NCSU Libraries Fellow, 2019-2021 at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting a NCSU Libraries Fellow, 2019-2021.

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The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program provides the launching pad for your career in a leading research library. As a Fellow you will experience the rewards of working with a diverse clientele, including outstanding faculty and students in nationally ranked academic programs. You will gain experience in a highly collaborative work environment with access to key decision makers throughout the organization. You will also develop expertise in a functional area of academic librarianship while contributing meaningfully to an innovative initiative of strategic importance. In addition to a competitive salary, the Libraries provides Fellows a generous professional development stipend.

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"Monographs on the Move?: A View on ‘Decoupling’ and Other Prospects"

Andrew Lockett has published "Monographs on the Move?: A View on 'Decoupling' and Other Prospects" in Insights.

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In the context of the recent debate about the movement towards a monographs mandate for the UK, this opinion piece considers the logic of ‘decoupling’ that underlies it. It also looks at the real opportunities to improve on the current extraordinarily durable high-price system for publishing long-form research. Thinking around decoupled monograph publishing has positioned academic authors as the individual consumers of diverse publishing services (a wide array of which are fast emerging) in the face of significant scholarly caution. Furthermore, a danger of renewed market dominance by price-makers in an open access environment remains, with the risk of inequitable outcomes that may mirror problems that have arisen in journals. Opportunities may also arise for new local initiatives, especially collective and community-based publishing, with academic libraries likely to be in the middle of a fast-changing and contested environment for publishing monographs.

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Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian at Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is recruiting a Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian.

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The Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian is responsible for providing expertise and leadership in development, implementation, and assessment of digital collections and metadata systems, policies, and procedures to support discovery, access, management, and preservation of Bryn Mawr and Tri-College collections. The position plays a key role in supporting the implementation, administration, and enhancement of Islandora, the newly selected platform to host and preserve Tri-Co digital assets.

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"The Open Access Citation Advantage: Does It Exist and What Does It Mean for Libraries?"

Colby Lil Lewis has published "The Open Access Citation Advantage: Does It Exist and What Does It Mean for Libraries?" in Information Technology and Libraries.

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The last literature review of research on the existence of an Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) was published in 2011 by Philip M. Davis and William H. Walters. This paper reexamines the conclusions reached by Davis and Walters by providing a critical review of OACA literature that has been published 2011, and explores how increases in OA publication trends could serve as a leveraging tool for libraries against the high costs of journal subscriptions.

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Biill Changes Will “Foster a Robust Public Domain”: "Public Knowledge Welcomes House Passage of Revised Music Modernization Act"

https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-welcomes-house-passage-of-revised-music-modernization-act

See also: "Public Knowledge Welcomes Senate Passage of Revised Music Modernization Act"

https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-welcomes-senate-passage-of-revised-music-modernization-act

Research Data Management Librarian at University of Houston

The University of Houston is recruiting a Research Data Management Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Research Data Management Librarian will lead the planning, implementation, and assessment of research data management services. Such services may include instruction, consultations, and partnerships with faculty and researchers on data management plans, data management tools and strategies, and metadata standards. Reporting to the Head of Liaison Services within the University Libraries, this position is part of the Liaison Services Department and will collaborate with subject librarians to integrate data management best practices across disciplines, in research labs, and research centers.

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"’Publication Favela’ or Bibliodiversity? Open Access Publishing Viewed from a European Perspective"

Pierre Mounier has published "'Publication Favela' or Bibliodiversity? Open Access Publishing Viewed from a European Perspective" in Learned Publishing.

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As a future infrastructure to support open scholarly communication across Europe, OPERAS aims to coordinate a range of publishers and service providers to offer researchers and societies a fully functional web of services to cover the entire research lifecycle.

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Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is recruiting a Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility.

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The incumbent will serve a leading role in developing and executing a research reproducibility support program across disciplines in addition to supporting critical duties in the Libraries’ evolving Research Data Management services portfolio, partnering with colleagues across library departments (Data Services, Science, Digital Scholarship Services, Reference and Instruction Services, etc.) to offer research reproducibility support for faculty, students, and staff in the form of in-depth consultations, workshops, courses, and other targeted outreach and development initiatives.

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"Embracing Change: The MIT Press and the Future of University-based Publishing"

Amy Brand has published "Embracing Change: The MIT Press and the Future of University-based Publishing" in Learned Publishing.

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This article provides a high-level overview of current strategic priorities and objectives at the MIT Press, focused mainly on the book side of the house.

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