Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

"Library Systems Report 2018"

Marshall Breeding has published "Library Systems Report 2018" in American Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

LSPs [Library Services Platform] are now the mainstream approach for supporting resource management and daily operations of academic libraries. These products have not yet become ubiquitous, though they continue to dominate in new procurement scenarios. A significant proportion of academic libraries rely on longstanding ILS implementations. A large portion of these libraries are engaged in selection processes that will culminate in the continuing decline of the ILS in this sector.

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Digital Technologies Librarian at Hamilton College

Hamilton College is recruiting a Digital Technologies Librarian.

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Reporting to the Director of Metadata and Digital Strategies, the Digital Technologies Librarian serves as a technical expert related to library digital collections software, standards and infrastructure. . . . The incumbent will manage our digital collections systems as well as collaborate on digital humanities projects.

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"Operationalizing the Replication Standard: A Case Study of the Data Curation and Verification Workflow for Scholarly Journals"

Thu-Mai Christian et al. have self-archived "Operationalizing the Replication Standard: A Case Study of the Data Curation and Verification Workflow for Scholarly Journals."

Here's an excerpt:

In response to widespread concerns about the integrity of research published in scholarly journals, several initiatives have emerged that are promoting research transparency through access to data underlying published scientific findings. Journal editors, in particular, have made a commitment to research transparency by issuing data policies that require authors to submit their data, code, and documentation to data repositories to allow for public access to the data. In the case of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) Data Replication Policy, the data also must undergo an independent verification process in which materials are reviewed for quality as a condition of final manuscript publication and acceptance. Aware of the specialized expertise of the data archives, AJPS called upon the Odum Institute Data Archive to provide a data review service that performs data curation and verification of replication datasets. This article presents a case study of the collaboration between AJPS and the Odum Institute Data Archive to develop a workflow that bridges manuscript publication and data review processes. The case study describes the challenges and the successes of the workflow integration, and offers lessons learned that may be applied by other data archives that are considering expanding their services to include data curation and verification services to support reproducible research.

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Research and Data Services Librarian at Temple University

Temple University is recruiting a Research and Data Services Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head of Research, Education & Outreach, the Research & Data Services Librarian supports the learning, research, and clinical activities at the Health Sciences Center. The Librarian will be responsible for providing education, liaison and research services as well as building a data services program at the Health Sciences Libraries. This position coordinates the Library’s data policies, provides training on data resources and tools, and works collaboratively with the other health and science librarians across the University Libraries.

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Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society

The Pew Research Center has released Declining Majority of Online Adults Say the Internet Has Been Good for Society .

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A sizable majority of online adults (70%) continue to believe the internet has been a good thing for society. Yet the share of online adults saying this has declined by a modest but still significant 6 percentage points since early 2014, when the Center first asked the question. This is balanced by a corresponding increase (from 8% to 14%) in the share of online adults who say the internet’s societal impact is a mix of good and bad.

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Funder Perspectives on Open Infrastructure

The Open Research Funders Group has released Funder Perspectives on Open Infrastructure.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) recently conducted a survey to better understand funder perspectives with respect to supporting open infrastructure. Sixteen organizations completed the questionnaire, evenly split between ORFG members and other funding bodies. The results suggest an underlying support for open initiatives and the infrastructure buttressing these activities. This is tempered by reservations about how best to discern and smartly invest in open infrastructure projects.

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University Librarian at California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is recruiting a University Librarian.

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Caltech (the California Institute of Technology), a private research university of approximately 300 faculty focused on science and engineering, seeks a talented leader and experienced administrator to serve as University Librarian. . . .

The Caltech Library comprises six libraries, which are staffed by 20 librarians, archivists, and software developers, including three with Ph.D.'s, as well as 25 support staff and a rotating team of student employees.

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University of Colorado Boulder Names Robert H. McDonald Dean of University Libraries

The University of Colorado Boulder has named Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Research and Technology Strategies Librarian at Indiana University Libraries, as Dean of University Libraries.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

As the associate dean for research and technology strategies at IU, McDonald led the work of providing library information system and discovery services to the entire IU system. He managed projects related to scholarly communications, new model publishing and technologies that enabled IU's libraries to support teaching and learning for the IU Bloomington campus.

At IU, he also served as deputy director of the Data to Insight Center, where he conducted research in areas of large data analysis and digital storage and preservation through grant-funded and collaborative projects, such as the HathiTrust Research Center.

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Information Technology Specialist (DATAMGT) at Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is recruiting an Information Technology Specialist (DATAMGT).

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Manage the Archives' born-digital collection formats in support of long-term preservation and access, including providing support for accessioning, arrangement, description, access and preservation of still images, textual, audiovisual, web archives, data sets and email digital assets.

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"The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories"

Wanda R. Marsolek et al. have published "The Types, Frequencies, and Findability of Disciplinary Grey Literature within Prominent Subject Databases and Academic Institutional Repositories" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

Here's an excerpt:

INTRODUCTION In many disciplines grey literature, or works that are more ephemeral in nature and are not typically published through traditional scholarly channels, are heavily used alongside traditional materials and sources. We were interested in the type and frequency of grey literature in subject databases and in North American institutional repositories (IRs) as well as what disciplines use grey literature. METHODS Over 100 subject databases utilized by academic researchers and the IRs of over 100 academic institutions were studied. Document type, search capabilities, and level of curation were noted. RESULTS Grey literature was present in the majority (68%) of the literature databases and almost all IRs (95%) contained grey literature. DISCUSSION Grey literature was present in the subject databases across all broad disciplines including arts and humanities. In these resources the most common types of grey literature were conference papers, technical reports, and theses and dissertations. The findability of the grey literature in IRs varied widely as did evidence of active collection development. CONCLUSION Recommendations include the development of consistent metadata standards for grey literature to enhance searching within individual resources as well as supporting future interoperability. An increased level of collection development of grey literature in institutional repositories would facilitate preservation and increase the findability and reach of grey literature.

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Digital Art: February and March’s Cartoons, Colored Pencil Drawings, Pen and Ink Drawings, and Woodcuts

In February and March, I transformed photos into cartoons, colored pencil drawings, pen and ink drawings, and woodcuts using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size download images (8 x 10 in. or 8 x 12 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 Cartoon of the Portsmouth Navy Yard

Pen and Ink Drawing of a Street in Malaga

Digital Cartoon of a Peacock

Digital Colored Pencil Drawing of a Fisherman in Gloucester

Digital Woodcut of the Brooksbrucke in Hamburg

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E-Research Librarian at University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is recruiting an E-Research Librarian.

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The E-Research Librarian leads initiatives that assist faculty and students in managing the lifecycle of research data resulting from research projects of all types. In collaboration with colleagues and campus partners, the incumbent develops sustainable services to support collecting, describing, preserving, accessing and re-using digital research data.

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Open Science: Altmetrics and Rewards

The Mutual Learning Exercise on Open Science has released Open Science: Altmetrics and Rewards.

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Its focus is on three topics: 1) The potential of altmetrics—alternative (i.e. non-traditional) metrics that go beyond citations of articles—to foster Open Science; 2) Incentives and rewards for researchers to engage in Open Science activities; 3) Guidelines for developing and implementing national policies for Open Science. It identifies good practices, lists priorities and outlines potential courses of action for the best possible transition to Open Science.

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Associate Dean for Innovation, Preservation, and Access at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is recruiting an Associate Dean for Innovation, Preservation, and Access.

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The next AD will be an innovative leader who develops a vision and chart a course for this new division, made up of the departments whose content is unique to Carnegie Mellon: Scholarly Communications, Data Management, Digital Scholarship, Digitization, and Archives & Unique Collections.

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"Curating Humanities Research Data: Managing Workflows for Adjusting a Repository Framework "

Hagen Peukert has published "Curating Humanities Research Data: Managing Workflows for Adjusting a Repository Framework" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

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Handling heterogeneous data, subject to minimal costs, can be perceived as a classic management problem. The approach at hand applies established managerial theorizing to the field of data curation. It is argued, however, that data curation cannot merely be treated as a standard case of applying management theory in a traditional sense. Rather, the practice of curating humanities research data, the specifications and adjustments of the model suggested here reveal an intertwined process, in which knowledge of both strategic management and solid information technology have to be considered. Thus, suggestions on the strategic positioning of research data, which can be used as an analytical tool to understand the proposed workflow mechanisms, and the definition of workflow modules, which can be flexibly used in designing new standard workflows to configure research data repositories, are put forward.

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PHP Programmer at Texas State Library and Archives Commission

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is recruiting a PHP Programmer.

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The analyst develops web and browser applications to support State Library programs and operations; is responsible for all system development steps for assigned projects; utilizes project management, systems analysis, and life cycle methodology concepts and processes to deliver the automated solution to business problems and opportunities. . . . The analyst performs WordPress administration and logical database user management tasks using PHPMyAdmin.

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Lisa R. Carter Named Vice Provost for Libraries at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lisa R. Carter, Associate Director, Special Collections and Area Studies at The Ohio State University Libraries has been named Vice Provost for Libraries at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Carter has been at Ohio State since 2011. Previously, she was the head of the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University Libraries in Raleigh, North Carolina and director of archives at the University of Kentucky Libraries in Lexington, Kentucky. In her professional service, Carter has advanced conversations about integrating distinctive collections widely throughout the academic enterprise.

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