Year: 2018

Associate Director, Library Technology and Digital Strategies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is recruiting a Associate Director, Library Technology and Digital Strategies.

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The Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County seeks an experienced manager to become a key member of the Library Executive Team and to provide future vision, oversight, leadership and strategic direction for the library's information technology infrastructure including the exploration, integration and implementation of new and emerging technologies.

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"Learning to Love Data (Week): Creating Data Services Awareness on Campus"

Katie Wissel and Lisa DeLuca have published "Learning to Love Data (Week): Creating Data Services Awareness on Campus" in College & Research Libraries News.

Here's an excerpt:

In May 2017, The Economist ran a cover story titled "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data." Given the continued growth in the sourcing, curating, and storing of data for academic research, it seems the academy would agree. In response to this growing need at Seton Hall, a midsized research university, the Seton Hall University (SHU) Libraries conducted an assessment of the current and emerging data requirements of the researchers and students on campus.

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Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian at Harvard University

Harvard University is recruiting a Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian.

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In his or her capacity as the Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the incumbent has an additional reporting relationship to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is responsible for the leadership and administration of the major libraries and numerous departmental and specialized libraries within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), including but not limited to a centrally administered unit within the FAS that is referred to as the Harvard College Library (HCL). HCL includes Widener, Lamont, Cabot, Houghton, and many departmental and specialty libraries.

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ARL: "Press and Library Directors Summit Report and Slides Available"

ARL has released "Press and Library Directors Summit Report and Slides Available."

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) hosted the second meeting of press and library directors with reporting relationships (P2L2) in San Francisco, California, on June 20, 2018. The P2L2 Summit focused on shared practices, projects, shared opportunities and challenges, open access sustainability, and the provosts’ value of the P2L relationship.

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Systems Administrator at George Washington University

George Washington University is recruiting a Systems Administrator.

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The Systems Administrator takes an innovative, service-centric approach to the management of GWLAI's virtual server environment. S/he will be responsible for managing the Linux servers, primarily Ubuntu based in the Washington Research Library Consortiums (WRLC) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment. The Systems Administrator will perform server deployments, application installation and configuration, and system monitoring in support of GWLAI web presences, software development and digital collection environments.

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$750,000 Grant: "Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR to Launch Plant Humanities Initiative"

JSTOR has released "Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR to Launch Plant Humanities Initiative."

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Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute of Harvard University, and JSTOR, the digital library for research and teaching that is part of the non-profit ITHAKA, are launching, with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Plant Humanities Initiative: a digital tool with related research and scholarly programming to advance the field of Plant Humanities. To this end, the Foundation has awarded JSTOR a grant of $750,000 for developing a digital tool, with a parallel grant of $700,000 to Dumbarton Oaks for the research and programming over three years.

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Digital Preservation Librarian at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian.

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The Digital Preservation Librarian will be forward-thinking, capable of conveying technical issues to diverse constituencies, enjoy working in a collaborative team environment, and be experienced with varied digital preservation services/systems. S/he provides expertise and coordinates efforts to develop and maintain a digital preservation program safeguarding LSU Libraries' digital assets, both born digital and converted. S/he will interface with departments including Library IT, the digitization lab, digital scholarship lab, special collections, university archives and oral history to establish and maintain policies, procedures and documentation related to digital preservation.

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"How Can Bibliometric and Altmetric Suppliers Improve? Messages from the End-User Community"

Elizabeth Gadd and Ian Rowlands have published "How Can Bibliometric and Altmetric Suppliers Improve? Messages from the End-User Community" in Insights.

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This article reports on a 2018 survey of bibliometric and altmetric practitioners—'Three things you want your metrics supplier to know'—that was undertaken to better understand the practitioners' usage of existing tools and services and to invite them to suggest ways in which they would like to see these improve. In total, 149 suggestions were made by 42 respondents, mainly UK librarians. Responses could be categorized into four main themes: A) Improve and share your data; B) Be more responsible; C) Improve your tools; D) Improve your indicators. The findings of the survey are discussed and sample comments shared. Based on these findings, and expanding on the four themes, the article makes a number of practical recommendations to metrics suppliers for ways in which their services could better serve the need of the community for robust and responsible bibliometric and altmetric evaluation.

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Digital Resources Librarian at Allegheny College

Allegheny College is recruiting a Digital Resources Librarian.

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We are seeking an individual who understands the management and discovery of digital resources. In collaboration with LITS staff, the successful candidate will be the primary support person for the management of internally-created digital resources, including manuscripts, images, audio/video, and student/faculty research and publications. In particular, the candidate will be responsible for managing the library’s DSpace institutional repository and Allegheny’s collections in JSTOR Forum. In addition, the DRL will support the library’s Summon discovery platform, Primo VE, and the College’s open access initiative.

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European Commission’s OA Plan S: "Academic Freedom and Responsibility: Why Plan S Is Not Unethical"

Stephen Curry, has published "Academic Freedom and Responsibility: Why Plan S Is Not Unethical" in Reciprocal Space.

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Since its announcement on 4th September the European Commission's plan to make a radical shift towards open access (OA) has caused quite a stir. Backed by eleven* national funding agencies, the plan aims to make the research that they support free to read as soon as it is published. This is a major challenge to the status quo, since the funders are effectively placing subscription journals off limits for their researchers, even if the journals allow green OA (publication of the author-accepted manuscript) after an embargo period; Plan S also specifically excludes hybrid open access except in cases where journals have an agreed schedule for flipping to OA. The plan has been welcomed as "admirably strong" by OA advocate Peter Suber, though he has also offered cautionary notes on some aspects. Others have been less enthusiastic. A central charge, from some publishers and some academics is that Plan S is an infringement of academic freedom to choose how and where your work is published and it therefore unethical.

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Scholarly Communications Specialist at British Library

The British Library is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Specialist.

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The British Library is redefining its role as a provider of open access services and seeks a specialist to support the development of a scholarly communications strategy to meet the needs of a global research audience. . . . Working closely with the Scholarly Communications Lead and the Repository Services Lead, the post holder will report on open access trends, evaluate emerging scholarly communications technologies and contribute to day-to-day repository workflows.

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US-Mexico-Canada Agreement: "From Copyright Term to Super Bowl Commercials: Breaking Down the Digital NAFTA Deal"

Michael Geist has published "From Copyright Term to Super Bowl Commercials: Breaking Down the Digital NAFTA Deal" in his blog.

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Yet the major copyright change for Canada is the extension in the term of copyright beyond the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life of the author plus 70 years. The term of copyright was never going to hold up a major trade agreement and Canada did agree to an extension in the original TPP. However, the cost will be significant, locking down works from the public domain for decades and potentially increasing educational costs by millions of dollars. From a domestic policy perspective, the change should impact the current copyright review as term extension has been one of the top requests from rights holders and areas of concern for users. The extension shifts the copyright balance in Canada and should be factored into future reforms, including the benefits of extending fair dealing to restore the balance.

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