Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Librarian for Geospatial Data and Systems at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is recruiting a Librarian for Geospatial Data and Systems.

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The Librarian for Geospatial Data and Systems is a member of the Office of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications in the Vanderbilt Libraries. Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications, the Librarian for Geospatial Data and Systems will take the lead in developing and supporting scholarly research that involves mapping and geospatial data. The Geospatial Librarian develops tools and platforms, trains students, faculty and staff to create and visualize geospatial data, and makes connections between GIS technologies, critical mapping, and academic disciplines across the university.

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After 28 Years of Open Access Publishing, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review Needs Your Support

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has released "A Request to Support BMCR."

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However, BMCR also relies on a publishing platform that was designed and built in the 1990s. We now desperately need to update this platform, and we seek at the same time to modernize BMCR's extraordinary archive of data on the history of classical scholarship. We have already contracted for proposals to do this work—which was itself an expensive process!—and would be happy to discuss our plans with any interested parties.

In short, to see this process through, we urgently need $80,000. The expense is beyond the scale of our very limited resources. We cannot continue to operate with our current platform, nor can we update it on the basis of our modest endowment.

Donate here.

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Director, Information Technology Services at Duke University

Duke University is recruiting a Director, Information Technology Services.

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The Director, Information Technology Services (ITS) manages the Information Technology Services departments and provides leadership for the assessment, procurement, deployment, management and enhancement of information technology activities and daily operations in the Duke University Libraries (DUL). The Director is responsible for the implementation of innovative information technology services that support the scholarship of faculty and students as well as the work of library staff.

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"Nearly One-in-Five Americans Now Listen to Audiobooks"

The Pew Research Center has released "Nearly One-in-Five Americans Now Listen to Audiobooks."

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Despite some growth in certain digital formats, it remains the case that relatively few Americans consume digital books (which include audiobooks and e-books) to the exclusion of print. Some 39% of Americans say they read only print books, while 29% read in these digital formats and also read print books. Just 7% of Americans say they only read books in digital formats and have not read any print books in the past 12 months.

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"Public Knowledge Urges Congress to Promote a Competitive Marketplace in Music Modernization Act"

Public Knowledge has released "Public Knowledge Urges Congress to Promote a Competitive Marketplace in Music Modernization Act."

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The Music Modernization Act is a rare bill that will bring positive change to the world of musical copyright. We applaud Representative Collins for including a number of pro-competitive and pro-consumer provisions in the Act, such as a blanket license, new performing rights organization, and a searchable, publicly accessible database of licensing information. . . .

The CLASSICS Act attempts to solve a systemic problem in copyright law—the lack of federal protection for pre-1972 sound recordings—by treating its symptoms. In doing so, it sweeps in countless archival and historical recordings, and grants them terms that in some cases exceed two centuries in duration. By refusing to commit works published prior to 1923 to the public domain (where they rightly belong), the language of CLASSICS endangers archival and historical activities.

Read more about it: H.R. 3301: CLASSICS Act and H.R. 4706: Music Modernization Act of 2017.

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Digital Technologies Coordinator at Claremont Colleges Services

Claremont Colleges Services is recruiting a Digital Technologies Coordinator.

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This position leads the library's digital archiving, publishing, and repository services by managing the Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL) and Scholarship@Claremont (S@C). In partnership with the Original Cataloging & Metadata Team Leader (OCMTL), the DTC coordinates training on creating descriptive, administrative, and preservation metadata for objects in the digital collections. The DTC also plans, implements, and evaluates technologies to support digital publishing and preservation efforts.

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"A Longitudinal Assessment of the Persistence of Twitter Datasets"

Arkaitz Zubiaga has self-archived "A Longitudinal Assessment of the Persistence of Twitter Datasets."

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With social media datasets being increasingly shared by researchers, it also presents the caveat that those datasets are not always completely replicable. Having to adhere to requirements of platforms like Twitter, researchers cannot release the raw data and instead have to release a list of unique identifiers, which others can then use to recollect the data from the platform themselves. This leads to the problem that subsets of the data may no longer be available, as content can be deleted or user accounts deactivated. To quantify the impact of content deletion in the replicability of datasets in a long term, we perform a longitudinal analysis of the persistence of 30 Twitter datasets, which include over 147 million tweets. . . . Even though the ratio of available tweets keeps decreasing as the dataset gets older, we find that the textual content of the recollected subset is still largely representative of the whole dataset that was originally collected. The representativity of the metadata, however, keeps decreasing over time, both because the dataset shrinks and because certain metadata, such as the users' number of followers, keeps changing.

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Associate Director for the Digital Library at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting an Associate Director for the Digital Library.

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The Associate Director for the Digital Library provides vision and leadership for the Digital Library division, playing a leading role in shaping the future of the NCSU Libraries as an essential competitive advantage for learning and research. With administrative responsibility for digital library strategy and technology in one of the nation’s most forward-thinking libraries, s/he leads in creating a cutting-edge environment that enables students, faculty, and researchers to discover and create new knowledge and develop multidisciplinary solutions to contemporary challenges.

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"Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Internet Archive for Long Tail Journal Preservation"

The Internet Archive has released "Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Internet Archive for Long Tail Journal Preservation."

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a research and development grant to the Internet Archive to address the critical need to preserve the "long tail" of open access scholarly communications. The project, Ensuring the Persistent Access of Long Tail Open Access Journal Literature, builds on prototype work identifying at-risk content held in web archives by using data provided by identifier services and registries. Furthermore, the project expands on work acquiring missing open access articles via customized web harvesting, improving discovery and access to this materials from within extant web archives, and developing machine learning approaches, training sets, and cost models for advancing and scaling this project’s work.

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Head of Digital Preservation at Harvard University

Harvard University is recruiting a Head of Digital Preservation.

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Reporting to the Head of Preservation Services, the Head of Digital Preservation develops, leads, and administers programs and services that meet and anticipate the digital preservation needs of Harvard’s library community. The incumbent provides strategic leadership to the Harvard community to preserve current and future scholarly assets and acts as a thought leader for the greater digital preservation community. The Head of Digital Preservation directs the strategic development and provides oversight of the Library’s large-scale digital repository service (DRS) which comprises technical infrastructure, the policies, and processes to preserve, manage, and provide access to the Harvard Library’s extensive and growing digital collections.

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"Opening the Heart of Science: A Review of the Changing Roles of Research Libraries"

Jorge Revez has published "Opening the Heart of Science: A Review of the Changing Roles of Research Libraries" in Publications.

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In a world of information overload and data deluge, is opening science a research library’s duty? Or is the openness of science deeply changing libraries, ultimately converting them into something else? The purpose of the review is to highlight the challenging issues stemming from the relationship between research and libraries. A broad literature analysis was performed focused on the intersection of three different perspectives: (1) the future of research libraries, (2) the emerging new roles, and (3) the ongoing openness of science. Libraries are still at the heart of science but challenged by several stakeholders within the complexity of present science production and communication. Research support services, research data management, or research information management are emerging roles, among others, sustaining an open path where libraries thrive to be more collaborative while looking forward to establishing new partnerships.

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Scholarly Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University is recruiting a Scholarly Services Librarian.

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  • Provide leadership and vision to create advocacy programs that encourage OSU faculty and graduate students to adopt open access research and publishing practices
  • Develop partnerships with internal and external constituents to advance scholarly services and initiatives such as advocating for author rights, developing a model for copyright support, raising awareness about open access best practices including depositing works into the institutional repository, and managing scholarly impact
  • Evaluate the potential for and guide implementation of technological tools and solutions for digital scholarship and scholarly communication

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"Data Sustainability and Reuse Pathways of Natural Resources and Environmental Scientists"

Yi Shen has self-archived "Data Sustainability and Reuse Pathways of Natural Resources and Environmental Scientists."

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This paper presents a multifarious examination of natural resources and environmental scientists' adventures navigating the policy change towards open access and cultural shift in data management, sharing, and reuse. Situated in the institutional context of Virginia Tech, a focus group and multiple individual interviews were conducted exploring the domain scientists' all-around experiences, performances, and perspectives on their collection, adoption, integration, preservation, and management of data. . . . Based on these findings, this study provides suggestions on data modeling and knowledge representation strategies to support the long-term viability, stewardship, accessibility, and sustainability of scientific data.

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"Washington Becomes First State to Pass Net Neutrality Protections into Law"

Washington Govener Jay Inslee has released "Washington Becomes First State to Pass Net Neutrality Protections into Law."

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In 2015, the FCC created rules against blocking legal content, throttling traffic and using paid prioritization for some traffic. The FCC reversed these net neutrality rules earlier this year.

Washington's new law, House Bill 2282, protects those net neutrality rules at the state level, ensuring that internet providers cannot advantageously manipulate internet speeds and access to content.

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Digital Art: November’s Cartoon Drawings, Colored Pencil Drawings, and Oil Paintings

In November, I transformed photos into cartoon drawings, colored pencil drawings, and oil paintings using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size download images (8×10" or 8×12") 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 Cheapside in London

Digital Color Pencil Drawing of Paintbrush Canyon

Digital Oil Painting of a Japanese Kabuki Dancer in White Makeup

Digital Oil Painting of Sycamore Canyon

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Associate Director for Information & Technology at Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum is recruiting an Associate Director for Information & Technology.

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The AD leads a team of professional staff in support of the Museum's mission and strategic objectives as it relates to public-facing digital initiatives; collections management; hardware and software systems; digital asset creation and management; information architecture and systems integration; application development; current technologies (e.g. linked open data and International Interoperability Framework); and all matters relating to the Museum’s online presence.

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"Collectivity and Collaboration: Imagining New Forms of Communality to Create Resilience in Scholar-Led Publishing"

Janneke Adema and Samuel A. Moore have self-archived "Collectivity and Collaboration: Imagining New Forms of Communality to Create Resilience in Scholar-Led Publishing."

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The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access (OA) projects. The collective promotes a progressive vision for open access based on mutual alliances between the 45+ member presses and projects seeking to offer an alternative to commercial and legacy models of publishing. This article presents a case study of the collective, highlighting how it harnesses the strengths and organizational structures of not-for-profit, independent and scholar-led publishing communities by 1) further facilitating collective efforts through horizontal alliances, and by 2) enabling vertical forms of collaboration with other agencies and organizations within scholarly publishing. It provides a background to the origins of the ROAC, its members, its publishing models on display and its future plans, and highlights the importance of experimenting with and promoting new forms of communality in not-for-profit OA publishing.

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Librarian, Scholarly Communication at University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is recruiting a Librarian, Scholarly Communication.

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The Scholarly Communication Librarian serves as a catalyst in the development of an integrated open strategy that encompasses open access, open science, and open data. The successful candidate will implement creative and sustainable approaches to support scholarly content creation and stewardship and promote a culture of open scholarship across campus.

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"UC San Diego Names Erik T. Mitchell New Audrey Geisel University Librarian"

The University of California San Diego has released "UC San Diego Names Erik T. Mitchell New Audrey Geisel University Librarian."

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Erik T. Mitchell, Ph.D. has been appointed university librarian at the University of California San Diego effective April 16, 2018. Mitchell currently serves as associate university librarian of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services and associate chief information officer at UC Berkeley.

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"Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study"

Diane (DeDe) Dawson has published "Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

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INTRODUCTION There are many compelling reasons to make research open access (OA), but raising the awareness of faculty and administrators about OA is a struggle. Now that more and more funders are introducing OA policies, it is increasingly important that researchers understand OA and how to comply with these policies. U.K. researchers and their institutions have operated within a complex OA policy environment for many years, and academic libraries have been at the forefront of providing services and outreach to support them. This article discusses the results of a qualitative study that investigated effective practices and strategies of OA outreach in the United Kingdom. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 individuals at seven universities in the United Kingdom in late 2015. Transcripts of these interviews were analyzed for dominant themes using an inductive method of coding. RESULTS Themes were collected under the major headings of "The Message"; "Key Contacts and Relationships"; "Qualities of the OA Practitioner"; and "Advocacy versus Compliance." DISCUSSION Results indicate that messages about OA need to be clear, concise, and jargon free. They need to be delivered repeatedly and creatively adapted to specific audiences. Identifying and building relationships with influencers and informers is key to the uptake of the message, and OA practitioners must have deep expertise to be credible as the messengers. CONCLUSION This timely research has immediate relevance to North American libraries as they contend with pressures to ramp up their own OA outreach and support services to assist researchers in complying with new federal funding policies.

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Senior User Experience Specialist at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Senior User Experience Specialist.

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking a Senior User Experience Specialist who will be responsible for setting direction, designing solutions, and architecting a consistent user experience (UX) across the library’s web presence. The person in this position will set and document the vision for the library’s digital user experience and partner with those who oversee the UX of our physical spaces.

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"Making the Transition as the New Copyright Librarian"

Emilie Regina Algenio has published "Making the Transition as the New Copyright Librarian" in the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship.

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The corpus of academic librarianship literature notes very little material in relation to the work of new copyright librarians. However, the number of academic libraries hiring librarians to fill these positions is increasing, and the need for such literature is real and pertinent. The purpose of this research is to assist incoming copyright librarians with practical, evidence-based guidance for colleagues just starting out in roles focused on copyright issues. The author drew from professional experience as a first-time copyright librarian at a Carnegie One academic institution in the United States. The author highlights the value of constructing a copyright educational foundation for the university community, cultivating a community of practice, establishing best practices around copyright questions and the utility of effective, vetted copyright resources. Understanding the finer details of a copyright librarian’s job are important, as academic libraries are hiring candidates for other scholarly communication positions, and the applicants are expected to know American copyright law.

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