Month: March 2019

Digital Imaging Coordinator at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is recruiting a Digital Imaging Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Imaging Coordinator leads the operations of the Digital Imaging Lab (DIL), a specialized unit that creates digital surrogates of primary resources from University Libraries collections for the purposes of preservation and access. He or she schedules digitization projects, implements service models, reports on section statistics. The incumbent maintains open lines of communication among stakeholders and leads others in the conceptualization, implementation, and outreach required for a successful program for the digitization of collections.

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Data Services Librarian at George Washington University

George Washington University is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The successful candidate will join a growing team that is leading the development and provision of services to support researchers in the discovery, access, analysis, management, preservation, and publication of data. The Data Services Librarian will support researchers across the full data lifecycle, helping meet the needs of data-intensive research and teaching in a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. In collaboration with others, they will help LAI grow its support of computational literacy and thinking and contribute to a portfolio of research and data consultations and classroom instruction.

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"Electronic Theses and Dissertations Workflows: Interdepartmental Collaboration at the University of Arkansas Libraries"

Rachel Paul and Cedar C. Middleton have published "Electronic Theses and Dissertations Workflows: Interdepartmental Collaboration at the University of Arkansas Libraries" in Collaborative Librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

This paper describes and evaluates the redesign of an interdepartmental workflow for the dissemination of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at a mid-sized academic library. The paper outlines the collaborative planning process within the library as well as the eventual outreach to additional stakeholders on campus, addressing the challenges of tackling such communication between the library and other ETD stakeholders

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European Parliament Approves Controversial Copyright Directive

The European Parliament has approved the controversial Copyright Directive, including Article's 11 and 13.

Here's a quick news roundup.

Digital Art: November and December’s Cartoons, Oil Paintings, Oil Pastel Drawings, Pastel Drawings, and Watercolor Paintings

In November and December, I transformed photos into cartoons, oil paintings, oil pastel drawings, pastel drawings, and watercolor paintings using a variety of specialized Photoshop plug-ins. Full-size download images (typically 8 x 10 in. to 19 x 13 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 Pastel Drawing of Staubbach Falls

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of the Blacktail Deer Plateau

Digital Watercolor Painting of El Capitan

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of the Yellowstone River Valley

Digital Pastel Drawing of Logan Pass

Digital Oil Painting of the Mammoth Hot Springs

Digital Cartoon of a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw

Digital Pastel Drawing of Lake McDonald

Digital Oil Painting of Storm Clouds in Montana

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Data Librarian at Library of Congress

Library of Congress is recruiting a Data Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The data librarian performs duties related to data acquisition, data curation and data management. This includes identifying and locating authoritative data sets used across CRS, recommending appropriate metadata schemas and workflows to describe, document, annotate and catalog data sets to enable discovery and re-use. The data librarian participates in the development of data repositories and data catalogs to store and archive data sets for long term access, and develops and maintains best practices and procedures.

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"Intelligent Infrastructure, Ubiquitous Mobility, and Smart Libraries—Innovate for the Future"

Yi Shen has published "Intelligent Infrastructure, Ubiquitous Mobility, and Smart Libraries—Innovate for the Future" in Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

This paper presents an empirical research on the strategic development of a large-scale transdisciplinary area, named Intelligent Infrastructure for Human-Centered Communities or IIHCC, in the institutional context of Virginia Tech. . . . . Within such developments, this study discusses the developing scenarios of "smart" libraries as innovative testbeds for data exploration, community knowledge base, and intelligent information interface. It further projects an intelligent, learning, and adaptive library system, featuring exemplary data science platform and dynamic data management mechanism, smart design and innovation space, as well as collective intelligence and creative partnership. During this extraordinary time of horizon change, this timely work informs academic library transformation and its architectural innovation in the age of "smartness."

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Open Education Resources (OER) Librarian at Michigan State University

Michigan State University is recruiting an Open Education Resources (OER) Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position will provide a broad range of newly envisioned services related to OER and affordable course content, and will be encouraged to explore other potential student success initiatives. The ideal candidate will build strong partnerships/collaborations across campus to develop, support, and integrate OER and affordable course content into MSU curricula, and will also play a leadership role in the Libraries by establishing best practices and strategic directions for OER initiatives.

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Walt Crawford Finds over 60 Malware Infested Gold OA Journals

As part of his GOAJ4 project, Walt Crawford has been identifying malware infested gold journals. To date, he has found over 60. Here are the relevant Walt at Random posts.

  1. "GOAJ4: Starting the Deep Dive"
  2. "Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 1, Indonesia"
  3. "Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 2, Malaysia"
  4. "Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 3, Romania"
  5. "Malware in Gold Open Access Journals, 2018–Part 4: Brazil"
  6. "OA and Malware: A Halfway Post"
  7. "GOAJ4: Malware and Other Issues, Part 2"
  8. "GOAJ4: Malware and Other Issues, Part 3 [Final]"

Here's his spreadsheet: "Gold Open Access Journal Malware, 2018, Others"

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Coordinating Discovery Systems Librarian at University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is recruiting a Coordinating Discovery Systems Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Coordinating Discovery Systems Librarian (CDSL), as a member of the User Interfaces Unit within the UNT Libraries' Digital Libraries Division, serves two roles. The first is to act as the primary administrator of the Integrated Library System (ILS), collaborating with stakeholders to support and improve day-to-day system operations. The second is to analyze how end users interact with the catalog and other discovery systems and to evaluate how well these systems support end users' goals.

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Digital Content Management Librarian at Harvard University

Harvard University is recruiting a Digital Content Management Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Content Management Librarian works primarily to support the digital asset and content management needs of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), including Gutman Library, the Teaching and Learning Lab, Programs in Professional Education, Information Technology, and other units. Reporting to the Collections Strategist and Scholarly Communication Librarian, the incumbent supports digital and analog management of the Library's core collections and special collections.

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"Establishing a Research Data Management Service on a Health Sciences Campus"

Kathryn Vela and Nancy Shin have published "Establishing a Research Data Management Service on a Health Sciences Campus" in the Journal of eScience Librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

Objective: Given the increasing need for research data management support and education, the Spokane Academic Library at Washington State University (WSU) sought to determine the data management practices, perceptions, and needs of researchers on the WSU Spokane health sciences campus.

Methods: A 23-question online survey was distributed to WSU researchers and research support staff through the campus listserv. This online survey addressed data organization, documentation, storage & backup, security, preservation, and sharing, as well as challenges and desired support services.

Results: Survey results indicated that there was a clear need for more instruction with regard to data management planning, particularly as data management planning addresses the areas of metadata design, data sharing, data security, and data storage and backup.

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"Data Objects and Documenting Scientific Processes: An Analysis of Data Events in Biodiversity Data Papers"

Kai Li, Jane Greenberg, and Jillian Dunic have self-archived "Data Objects and Documenting Scientific Processes: An Analysis of Data Events in Biodiversity Data Papers."

Here's an excerpt:

The data paper, an emerging scholarly genre, describes research datasets and is intended to bridge the gap between the publication of research data and scientific articles. Research examining how data papers report data events, such as data transactions and manipulations, is limited. The research reported on in this paper addresses this limitation and investigated how data events are inscribed in data papers. A content analysis was conducted examining the full texts of 82 data papers, drawn from the curated list of data papers connected to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Data events recorded for each paper were organized into a set of 17 categories. . . . The findings challenge the degrees to which data papers are a distinct genre compared to research papers and they describe data-centric research processes in a through way.

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Head of Scholarly Communication at University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is recruiting a Head of Scholarly Communication.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The post-holder, based at the University Library, will lead a team responsible for services including open access and funder compliance, research data management, researcher development training and the institutional repository. The University has recently published a position statement on Open Research, and the post-holder will help advocate and advance this agenda in support of the University's mission and values.

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