Year: 2018

Vital Technologies Librarian at California State University, San Bernardino

California State University, San Bernardino is recruiting a Vital Technologies Librarian.

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California State University, San Bernardino's (CSUSB) John M. Pfau Library invites applications from forward-looking, collaborative, service-focused librarians to provide the leadership and effective communication to maintain, enrich, and advance the library's information technologies and Web services.

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"Defining Data Librarianship: A Survey of Competencies, Skills, and Training"

Lisa Federer has published "Defining Data Librarianship: A Survey of Competencies, Skills, and Training" in the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Here's an excerpt:

Respondents considered a broad range of skills and knowledge important to their work, especially “soft skills” and personal characteristics, like communication skills and the ability to develop relationships with researchers. Traditional library skills like cataloging and collection development were considered less important. A cluster analysis of the responses revealed two types of data librarians: data generalists, who tend to provide data services across a variety of fields, and subject specialists, who tend to provide more specialized services to a distinct discipline.

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Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is recruiting a Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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This position includes a role in DASH, a cross-disciplinary program supporting faculty and students who employ digital methodologies and technologies in their research, teaching, and creative work. DASH is an alliance of five University partners: the Libraries, Liberal Arts Technologies & Innovation Services (LATIS), the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Educational Innovation, and Research Computing. Through DASH, this position will provide individual consultations, classroom and workshop teaching, and digital project guidance and prototyping for researchers and scholars in disciplines across the university.

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Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is recruiting a Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian.

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This position includes a role in DASH, a cross-disciplinary program supporting faculty and students who employ digital methodologies and technologies in their research, teaching, and creative work. DASH is an alliance of five University partners: the Libraries, Liberal Arts Technologies & Innovation Services (LATIS), the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Educational Innovation, and Research Computing. Through DASH, this position will provide individual consultations, classroom and workshop teaching, and digital project guidance and prototyping for researchers and scholars in disciplines across the university.

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"ETDs in the 21st Century"

Gail McMillan has published "ETDs in the 21st Century" in EDUCAUSE Review.

Here's an excerpt:

Electronic theses/dissertations (ETDs) have been required at higher education institutions for twenty years. Although numerous goals have been realized, the majority of ETDs have not been transformed into new media.

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Assistant Director, Digital Product Strategy at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Assistant Director, Digital Product Strategy.

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In this role you will lead a Digital Product Strategy Department, which includes major product and program development for end-user technology. Together with your department's staff, we will cultivate roadmaps for your portfolio to develop the larger technology roadmap.

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Scholarly Metrics Recommendations for Research Libraries: Deciphering the Trees in the Forest

LIBER has released Scholarly Metrics Recommendations For Research Libraries: Deciphering the Trees in the Forest.

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The report sets out recommendations on how research libraries and information infrastructures can deal with scholarly metrics, and how to get started with the development of services to support this. The recommendations are grouped into four important types of activities relating to metrics:

  1. Discovery and Discoverability
  2. Showcasing Achievements
  3. Service Development
  4. Research Assessment

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Digitization Coordinator and Registrar at University of Illinois

The University of Illinois is recruiting a Digitization Coordinator and Registrar.

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Reporting to the Head of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML), the Digitization Coordinator and Registrar provides and coordinates digitization services in the RBML and the Special Collections Division, and coordinates the use, management and loans of materials in RBML and the Division.

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"Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem: 2017 Conference Summary"

Joshua Borycz and Bonnie Carroll have published "Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem: 2017 Conference Summary" in Data Science Journal.

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Digital research objects are packets of information that scientists can use to organize and store their data. There are currently many different methods in use for optimizing digital objects for research purposes. These methods have been applied to many scientific disciplines but differ in architecture and approach. The goals of this joint digital research object (DRO) conference were to discuss the challenge of characterizing DROs at scale in volume and over time and possible organizing principles that might connect current DRO architectures. One of the primary challenges concerns convincing scientists that these tools and practices will actually make the research process easier and more fruitful. This conference included work from CENDI, the National Federal STI Managers Group, the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the National Academy of Science (NAS).

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License Change at Major Social Media Site for Photographers: "500px Nukes 1M+ Creative Commons Photos"

Michael Zhang has published "500px Nukes 1M+ Creative Commons Photos" in PetaPixel.

Here's an excerpt:

But overnight, all of the CC photos that have been uploaded since 2012 have been nuked from 500px. Users can no longer choose a CC license during uploading, search for CC photos, or download them.

Jason Scott reports on Twitter that the photos have been archived in the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine:

3 terabytes of Creative Commons photos going into the Wayback machine thanks to the efforts of dozens of volunteers slamming from NO warning and going for 48 hours straight. Amazing work, everyone. It's going to take a while to understand exactly what we got.

Note that the Wayback Machine is only searchable by site URL.

The Creative Commons photos have not been deleted; however, the Creative Commons license has been. Consequently, the user has no way to know about the existing Creative Commons licensing terms. On logon today, 500px gives the user the option of opting out of commercial distribution by Getty Images.

See also: "500px Photo Site Abandons Freely Shareable Images with Commercialization Push."

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User Experience/Web Design Librarian at University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco is recruiting a User Experience/Web Design Librarian.

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The User Experience / Web Design Librarian will have primary responsibility for the assessment, integration, and usability of the library’s web interfaces for resource discovery, including, but not limited to, the integrated library system (III/WebPac/Encore), discovery service (EBSCO/EDS), resource guides and room booking services (Springshare), digital and special collections systems, and library web sites.

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"Social Media Metrics for New Research Evaluation"

Paul Wouters et al. have self-archived "Social Media Metrics for New Research Evaluation."

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This chapter approaches, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, the most important principles and conceptual frameworks that can be considered in the application of social media metrics for scientific evaluation. We propose conceptually valid uses for social media metrics in research evaluation. The chapter discusses frameworks and uses of these metrics as well as principles and recommendations for the consideration and application of current (and potentially new) metrics in research evaluation.

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Digital Initiatives Coordinator at Georgetown University Law Center

The Georgetown University Law Center is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Initiatives Coordinator is responsible for the oversight, maintenance, and advancement of digital projects and collections falling under the purview of the Digital Initiatives Department at the Georgetown University Law Library.

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"A Conceptual Enterprise Framework for Managing Scientific Data Stewardship"

Ge Peng et al. have published "A Conceptual Enterprise Framework for Managing Scientific Data Stewardship" in the Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Scientific data stewardship is an important part of long-term preservation and the use/reuse of digital research data. It is critical for ensuring trustworthiness of data, products, and services, which is important for decision-making. Recent U.S. federal government directives and scientific organization guidelines have levied specific requirements, increasing the need for a more formal approach to ensuring that stewardship activities support compliance verification and reporting. However, many science data centers lack an integrated, systematic, and holistic framework to support such efforts. The current business- and process-oriented stewardship frameworks are too costly and lengthy for most data centers to implement. They often do not explicitly address the federal stewardship requirements and/or the uniqueness of geospatial data. This work proposes a data-centric conceptual enterprise framework for managing stewardship activities, based on the philosophy behind the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, a proven industrial concept. This framework, which includes the application of maturity assessment models, allows for quantitative evaluation of how organizations manage their stewardship activities and supports informed decision-making for continual improvement towards full compliance with federal, agency, and user requirements.

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Teaching and Digital Projects Librarian at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Teaching and Digital Projects Librarian.

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The successful candidate for this position will develop innovative services, modules, and programs to assist first and second year students in building important information literacy abilities.

The Teaching and Digital Projects librarian will also oversee development of innovative services and programs for students and faculty; assist with development of digital portfolios; assist with scholarly communications and open access initiatives; and use knowledge of disciplinary trends to maintain and/or implement digital systems and repositories.

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"More Than 1 Million Images Now Publicly Available at library.artstor.org!"

Artstor has released "More Than 1 Million Images Now Publicly Available at library.artstor.org!."

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Artstor has made more than 1 million image, video, document, and audio files from public institutional collections freely available to everyone—subscribers and non-subscribers alike—at library.artstor.org. These collections are being shared by institutions who make their content available via JSTOR Forum, a tool that allows them to catalog, manage, and share digital media collections and make them discoverable to the widest possible audience.

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Digital Library QA Developer Lead at University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Digital Library QA Developer Lead.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Program, we are seeking an experienced quality assurance professional to direct the testing and monitoring of our library applications. We develop and host a wide range of software services from web applications (library website), messaging services, databases, search indexes, and our digital repository (CurateND). These provide, discovery, access, and preservation of content including digital collections, research data, exhibits, and digitized videos for classroom usage. Ensuring both access and data integrity of our hosted collections is critical to our mission.

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