"Nutter was predeceased in December by her beloved husband, best friend, and creative colleague, Joe Anderson Hewitt, former Vice Provost and University Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."
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The University of Houston is recruiting an Online Learning Librarian.
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This is a teaching-focused position, both within the traditional classroom and online. The Online Learning Librarian will apply critical, learner-centered pedagogy to create self-paced online lessons, assignments, and other online curricula that teach information literacy concepts to students in face-to-face, hybrid, and asynchronous online courses. These online learning initiatives will align with the greater programmatic learning outcomes of the library’s information literacy program. The librarian will assess online learning for instructional effectiveness, inclusivity, and student learning.
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Ithaka S+R has released the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2018.
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In this seventh triennial cycle, we surveyed a random sample of faculty within the United States on topics from previous cycles, including information discovery and access, data management, research dissemination, perceptions of student research skills, and the value of the library. We also added new questions on emerging topics of interest, including open educational resources, learning analytics, and evolving scholarly communication models.
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The University of Tennessee is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.
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Reporting to the Head of the Scholars' Collaborative, the Digital Scholarship Librarian works closely with information professionals and technology experts in the Libraries, on campus, and at other institutions to assist campus scholars with integrating digital resources and methodologies with traditional approaches for teaching, learning, research, and engagement. As a member of the Scholars’ Collaborative, the Digital Scholarship Librarian increases the visibility and usability of digital scholarship practices and resources through research consultations, workshops and course-integrated instruction, online research guides, and outreach efforts.
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David M. Frohlich et al. have published "The Cornwall a-book: An Augmented Travel Guide Using Next Generation Paper" in the Journal of Electronic Publishing.
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Electronic publishing usually presents readers with book or e-book options for reading on paper or screen. In this paper, we introduce a third method of reading on paper-and-screen through the use of an augmented book ('a-book') with printed hotlinks than can be viewed on a nearby smartphone or other device. Two experimental versions of an augmented guide to Cornwall are shown using either optically recognised pages or embedded electronics making the book sensitive to light and touch. We refer to these as second generation (2G) and third generation (3G) paper respectively. A common architectural framework, authoring workflow and interaction model is used for both technologies, enabling the creation of two future generations of augmented books with interactive features and content. In the travel domain we use these features creatively to illustrate the printed book with local multimedia and updatable web media, to point to the printed pages from the digital content, and to record personal and web media into the book.
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DigitalKoans posts will resume on 4/15/2019.
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The TriCollege Libraries Consortium is recruiting a TriCo Library Technology Services Manager.
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The Library Technology Services Manager serves as a member of the TriCollege Libraries Systems Team, based out of Bryn Mawr College. The position is responsible for continuous enhancement of the tools, interfaces, and workflows that allow library staff to work effectively and that enable scholars to discover and use the Libraries’ rich collections. . . . This position supervises the TriCo Digital Library Developer and works collaboratively with that colleague to support, develop, integrate, and enhance our core library services platform, digital asset management and preservation environment, discovery interfaces, and related tools and practices.
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Caitlin Harrington et al. have published "Data Stewardship Week in an Academic Library: An Overview" in College & Research Libraries News..
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In the information age, data stewardship is crucial for individual and organizational productivity. It is easy to get overwhelmed by vast amounts of information being created every second. Information overload has become a common occurrence in the workplace to the extent that people "spend more time searching for the right information, leaving them less time for proper analyses using the acquired information." Thus, the excess of information in the workplace can lead to stress, lack of productivity, and information fatigue.
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The TriCollege Libraries Consortium is recruiting a TriCo Digital Library Developer.
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The Digital Library Developer serves as a member of the TriCollege Libraries Systems Team, based out of Bryn Mawr College. The position is responsible for supporting, developing, and integrating our core library services platform, digital asset management and preservation environment, discovery interfaces, and related tools and workflows.
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Lindsey Gumb has published "An Open Impediment: Navigating Copyright and OER Publishing in the Academic Library" in College & Research Libraries News.
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Most academic librarians are accustomed to assisting faculty with locating and acquiring quality, copyrighted learning resources to support the curriculum. Therefore, slightly realigning this process in order to point these individuals toward quality, openly licensed content hasn't required a significant learning curve beyond identifying appropriate open repositories for consultation. What happens, however, when these same faculty want to go beyond simply identifying and adopting OER content and ask for help in revising, remixing, and creating new content?
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McGill University is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.
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The McGill University Library & Archives seeks an innovative, autonomous and resourceful data services Librarian to assist in the provision of a range of library and information services and collections to support teaching, learning, research and outreach activities.
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John Willinsky and Matthew Rusk have published "If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs" in College & Research Libraries.
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Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to directly fund open access scholarly publishing, this study presents an analysis of how creatively combining these two models might provide a means to move toward universal open access (without APCs). This study calculates the publishing costs for the funders that sponsor the research and for the libraries that cover unsponsored articles for two nonprofit biomedical publishers, eLife and PLOS, and the nonprofit journal aggregator BioOne. These entities represent a mix of publishing revenue models, including funder sponsorship, article processing charges (APC), and subscription fees. Using PubMed filtering and manual-sampling strategies, as well as publicly available publisher revenue data, the study found that, in 2015, 86 percent of the articles in eLife and PLOS acknowledge funder support, as do 76 percent of the articles in the largely subscription journals of BioOne. Such findings can inform libraries and funding agencies, as well as publishers, in their consideration of a direct-payment open access model, as the study (a) demonstrates the cost breakdown for funder and library support for open access among this sample of X articles; (b) posits how publishing data-management organizations such as Crossref and ORCID can facilitate such a model of funder and library per-article open access payments; and (c) proposes ways in which such a model offers a more efficient, equitable, and scalable approach to open access across the disciplines than the prevailing APC model, which originated with biomedical publishing.
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New York University is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.
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The Data Services Librarian will develop new curricula and provide classroom-based, small group, and individual data management training, with a focus on the clinical research population. In addition, the position would include data-related service development in other areas, dependent on library needs and the candidate’s interest and expertise. Possibilities include developing curricula or support services related to: quantitative or qualitative data analysis, data cleaning, reproducibility, research metrics, coding, data standards, data preservation, metadata, data finding, or data/text mining.
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Julie Arendt, Bettina Peacemaker, and Hillary Miller have published "Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study" in College & Research Libraries.
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To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman's 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles still have a citation advantage. For three of the four disciplines examined, the most common sites hosting freely available articles were independent sites, such as academic social networks or article sharing sites. For the same three disciplines, more than 70% of the open access copies were publishers' PDFs. The major difference from Antelman's is the increase in the number of freely available articles that appear to be in violation of publisher policies.
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Florida State University is recruiting a Web Developer.
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Reporting to the Director of Software Development, this developer works in a team environment on a variety of library web applications under the guidance of a Senior Developer. This position will focus primarily on Drupal websites and Drupal-based digital repository applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Brian Simboli has self-archived "arXiv and the Symbiosis of Physics Preprints and Journal Review Articles: A Model."
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This paper recommends a publishing model that can help achieve the goal of reforming physics publishing. It distinguishes two complementary needs in scholarly communication. Preprints, increasingly important in science, are properly the vehicle for claiming priority of discovery and for eliciting feedback that will help with versioning. Traditional journal publishing, however, should focus on providing synthesis in the form of overlay journals that play the same role as review articles.
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Brown University is recruiting an Assistant Director for Digital Engagement and Discovery .
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The Assistant Director for Digital Engagement and Discovery coordinates digital initiatives at the Library and works with the Director/Librarian and Associate Librarian in developing strategies for online engagement. . . .The Assistant Director will shape future engagement with the world-renowned research collection of the John Carter Brown Library by enhancing the Library’s digital presence and furthering its exploration of digital technologies in a special collections environment.
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Springer Nature has released "Springer Nature Publishes Its First Machine-Generated Book."
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Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book in chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. . . .
In close collaboration between Springer Nature and researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, a state-of-the-art algorithm, the so-called Beta Writer, was developed to select, consume and process relevant publications in this field from Springer Nature’s content platform SpringerLink. Based on this peer-reviewed and published content, the Beta Writer uses a similarity-based clustering routine to arrange the source documents into coherent chapters and sections. It then creates succinct summaries of the articles. The extracted quotes are referenced by hyperlinks which allow readers to further explore the original source documents. Automatically created introductions, table of contents and references facilitate the orientation within the book.
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