The New York Society Library is recruiting a Head of Systems.
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Responsibilities include network management; planning, implementation, training, and troubleshooting library technologies; participation in the management of the Library's web, social networking, and digitization initiatives; and routine security and hardware maintenance. The Head of Systems supervises a department of two part-time assistants.
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ACRL has made the entire College & Research Libraries archive freely available.
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"Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession," said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. "Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL's ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content where the academic librarians of today and tomorrow will delve into our history, understand how we evolved and make new discoveries that could stimulate groundbreaking research and innovation of real benefit to academic librarianship."
C&RL archival contents from 1939 through 1996 were digitized through the generous volunteer efforts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. The library's Digital Content Creation department performed scanning and metadata creation for the approximately 340 back file issues of the journal in 2011 and 2012. The digitized files were added to the journal's online presence with the financial assistance of the ACRL Friends Fund.
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The Hampshire College Library Center is recruiting a Systems & Discovery Librarian.
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Reporting to the Director of the Library in a collaborative team environment, the Systems & Discovery Librarian will design, implement, and assess (metadata-reliant) processes and other knowledge discovery strategies to enable access to research resources in all formats. Leads library-wide efforts to optimize a suite of discovery and retrieval systems designed to help users access collections; leveraging relevant technologies to provide user-centric services for information access and discovery in digital and physical realm.
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Carol Tenopir, Robert J. Sandusky, Suzie Allard, and Ben Birch have published "Academic Librarians and Research Data Services: Preparation and Attitudes" in the latest issue of IFLA Journal.
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Research funding bodies recognize the importance of infrastructure and services to organize and preserve research data, and academic research libraries have been identified as locations in which to base these research data services (RDS). Research data services include data management planning, digital curation (selection, preservation, maintenance, and archiving), and metadata creation and conversion. We report the results of an empirical investigation into the RDS practices of librarians in US and Canadian academic research libraries, establishing a baseline of the engagement of librarians at this early stage of widespread service development. Specifically, this paper examines the opinions of the surveyed librarians regarding their preparedness to provide RDS (background, skills, and education), their attitudes regarding the importance of RDS for their libraries and institutions, and the factors that contribute to or inhibit librarian engagement in RDS.
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The University of Cincinnati Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist/Records Manager.
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Full-time tenure-track faculty appointment responsible for developing and implementing digital workflow including, but not limited to, born-digital archives, the digitization of existing hard copy materials, and the digital preservation of established electronic records. Also responsible for implementation and management of the University of Cincinnati Records Management Program. Coordinates and provides technological support for ARB staff including the ARB website.
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ACRL has released "Keeping Up With…Digital Humanities"
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Digital Humanities is not limited to any one field—it is highly collaborative, and draws contributors from many backgrounds—but it does have a solid base in academia. In recent years, related initiatives have emerged at universities (and elsewhere) worldwide. For academic librarians, the increasing prominence of Digital Humanities, its ongoing debates and the issues and opportunities associated with bringing it into the library, are worth noting. In this issue of Keeping Up With… we address some of the most significant "need-to-know" issues for academic librarians interested in Digital Humanities.
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ACRL has released "Drowning in Research Data: Addressing Data Management Literacy of Graduate Students" as part of the ACRL 2013 Proceedings..
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In this paper we will discuss findings from our research study of social sciences and science graduate students' levels of research data management literacy, which include attitudes and behaviours, and formal and informal education experiences. Using an online survey of Canadian graduate students in the social sciences and science, we were able to reach a large number of students across the country and to gather sufficient responses to allow us to offer some insights on the overall graduate student research data management landscape.
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ACRL has released "Evaluating PREMIS in an Academic Research Library" as part of the ACRL 2013 Proceedings.
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This paper provides a survey of the collections at the UVa Library, a review of the PREMIS metadata standard, and an overview of the task force's findings related to evaluation of the standard and recommendations for PREMIS implementation at the UVa Library. The authors hope that by providing this example of one library's attempt to adopt PREMIS, other libraries can plan their own evaluation and implementation.
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ACRL has released "Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access" as part of the ACRL 2013 Proceedings.
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In this Q study, factor analysis revealed three distinct factors that outlined clusters of faculty opinions about open access. The authors described these factors as "Evangelists," "Pragmatists," and"Traditionalists." Each of these factors represents a group of faculty on Miami University's Oxford campus who hold specific attitudes and opinions regarding open access. Implications for future library initiatives implementing open access programs, services, and policies are discussed, as are directions for additional research.
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ACRL has released "The Copyright Axis of Evil: The Academic Library Must Confront Threats to User Rights" as part of the ACRL 2013 Proceedings.
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This paper will define the key copyright developments that will challenge academic libraries over the next two years (2013-15) as they seek to support teaching, learning and research at their institutions. American libraries have benefited in significant ways from the availability of fair use (section 107) and various exceptions (section 108) in the US copyright law. But a new library treaty in development at the World Intellectual Property Organization highlights the expanding influence of global copyright developments on national policies.
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Utah State University Libraries are recruiting a Metadata Librarian:
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This new position will play a major role in furthering the success of the Library's digital initiatives by enhancing discovery and access for digital content through metadata creation and enrichment according to local and national cataloging and metadata standards. The Metadata Librarian will document and implement adopted metadata standards, practices, and workflows. He/She will lead efforts to provide metadata for archival and special collections materials, explore innovative ways to enhance metadata, and contribute to making the library's digital content more readily discoverable.
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Information Standards Quarterly has published a special issue on "2012 Year in Review and State of the Standards."
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"NISO has a very active standards and recommended practices development pipeline with more than 20 active projects," explains Nettie Lagace, NISO's Associate Director for Programs. "In 2012, we published two new standards, the revision of a two-part standard, two new recommended practices, two recommended practice revisions, and a new white paper. We also launched three new initiatives and were awarded two new grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These are all described in more detail in this issue of ISQ."
"NISO's role as the U.S. Administrator for the ISO TC 46 Committee on Information and Documentation and the Secretariat for the subcommittee on Identification and Description ensures that our community has an active role in international standards development as well," said Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Managing Editor and a consultant for NISO who helps manage the ISO work. "Our members not only vote on these ISO standards ballots, they also provide critical comments to the development working groups and volunteer to be members of these groups to help shape these international standards. This issue summarizes the work of TC 46 and its four subcommittees during 2012."
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The Five Colleges of Ohio are recruiting a Mellon Digital Scholar.
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The successful candidate will
- Foster the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects;
- Serve as a liaison to faculty, educating them about the wide range of options offered by the libraries and collaborating with them on the use of digital collections and projects in the curriculum;
- Train and coordinate training opportunities for library staff to increase their understanding and awareness of the emerging field of digital scholarship;
- Engage faculty and students, as appropriate, in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using digital collections and emerging analytical tools;
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Arthur Sale has self-archived "Recent Developments in Open Access" in UTAS ePrints.
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Open Access to the world's research literature has been an obvious development since the emergence of the Internet. To everyone, it appears clear that the costs of disseminating research could drop dramatically. Yet, progress in achieving it is strangely slow. This paper explores recent developments in open access, including:
- The recent Australian NH&MRC and ARC mandates for open access deposit in university repositories, and how universities are responding to them
- The UK&'s Finch Report, and Lord Krebs&' Committee Report
- Recent USA and German developments
- Gradual growth in open access journals, and the challenge for universities and their libraries of transferring reader-side fees (subscriptions) to author-side fees (publication charges)
- The emergence of submission fees so that highly selective journals need not transfer all the costs of rejections onto successful articles
- Fake conferences and journals which exist only to extract attendance or publication fees
- Newer publishing models
- The recent emergence of a third route to open access based on social networking.
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The University of Waterloo Library is recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives.
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Demonstrated ability to lead change, and identify and implement new technologies, services and work methods; ability to learn and evaluate new technologies quickly. Competencies will include strategic thinking, project management, metadata, information technology, human resources management, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills, instruction and training. Demonstrated ability to independently, as well as collaboratively, plan, coordinate, and implement effective digital projects, including managing multiple and simultaneous projects. Knowledge and understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, current programming languages and frameworks, issues and trends relating to web technologies and digital initiatives in the library environment.
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Ithaka S+R has released the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012.
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Major topics covered by the survey include:
- Research processes: The processes through which scholars perform their research, focusing principally on the use of research materials in secondary and primary research.
- Teaching practices: The pedagogical methods that faculty members are adopting and the ways that they draw on content and support services in their teaching.
- Scholarly communications:Formal and informal methods by which scholars communicate with each other, the ways in which the types of materials and information exchanged in these processes are evolving, and needs for various kinds of publishing support services.
- The library: How faculty members perceive the roles and value of their institutional library, touching on the roles the library plays in supporting many of the above activities.
- Scholarly societies:How faculty members perceive the roles and value of their primary scholarly society, including in supporting both formal and informal communications between scholars.
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Stanford University Libraries are recruiting a Discovery Metadata Librarian.
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The Discovery Metadata Librarian is responsible for the accessioning of digital objects into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). Stanford University Libraries' (SUL) SDR manages hundreds of terabytes of assets and the successful, automated ingestion of digital objects and their metadata will be key to its success. The objects ingested may come from many sources, from digital library collections to Google-scanned books and the metadata for the collections will need to be examined with an eye both to schema and successful discovery in SUL's discovery environment, SearchWorks.
This is a four-year, fixed-term position.
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