https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01462679.2019.1582391
Category: ARL Libraries
“Memorial: Kaye Gapen, 1943–2019”
Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of Libraries at Colorado State University
Colorado State University is recruiting a Vice President for Information Technology and Dean of Libraries.
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The individual in this position oversees a collaborative division that includes the CSU Libraries and its associated units; Academic Computing and Network Services (ACNS); Telecommunications; and Information Systems (IS). The CSU Libraries support the academic mission of the University by providing access to information and research assistance for students, faculty and staff in support of research, teaching and learning.
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"Why UC Split with Publishing Giant Elsevier"
"The Ecosystem of Repository Migration"
Juliet L. Hardesty and Nicholas Homenda have published "The Ecosystem of Repository Migration" in Publications.
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Indiana University was an early adopter of the Fedora repository, developing it as a home for heterogeneous digital library content from a variety of collections with unique content models. After joining the Hydra Project, now known as Samvera, in 2012, development progressed on a variety of applications that formed the foundation for digital library services using the Fedora 4 repository. These experiences have shaped migration planning to move from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 for this large and inclusive set of digital content. Moving to Fedora 4 is not just a repository change; it is an ecosystem shift. End user interfaces for access, management systems for collection managers, and data structures are all impacted. This article shares what Indiana University has learned about migrating to Fedora 4 to help others work through their own migration considerations. This article is also meant to inspire the Fedora repository development community to offer ways to further ease migration work, sustaining Fedora users moving forward, and inviting new Fedora users to try the software and become involved in the community.
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"A Lesson From UC’s Split With Elsevier: Keep the Faculty in the Loop"
"Elsevier Writes to Editors–CDL Calls It Off"
More Coverage of the University of California’s Cancellation of Its Elsevier Subscriptions
- "Huge US University Cancels Subscription with Elsevier" (Nature)
- "UC Drops Elsevier" (Inside Higher Ed)
- "University of California Boycotts Publishing Giant Elsevier over Journal Costs and Open Access" (Science)
- "Why UC Split with Publishing Giant Elsevier" (Berkeley News)
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"University of California Academic Council Statement on the University’s Negotiations with Elsevier Publishing"
The Academic Council of the Academic Senate of the University of California has released "University of California Academic Council Statement on the University's Negotiations with Elsevier Publishing."
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The Academic Council of the Academic Senate of the University of California (UC), hereby signals its collective and resolute commitment to support UC's negotiating position with Elsevier in order to advance UC's mission as a public institution, make the products of our research and scholarship as freely and widely available as possible, and ensure that UC spends taxpayer money in the most ethically, morally, and socially-responsible way when entering into agreements with commercial publishers. . . .
At the present time, UC and Elsevier have reached an impasse in their negotiations and our contract has lapsed. Nonetheless, the Academic Council of the Academic Senate stands firm in its conviction that a comprehensive transformative agreement that covers all Elsevier titles is required to achieve the aspirations embodied in the Academic Senate's Open Access Policy, and articulated by the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC) in its Declaration of Rights and Principles, and by the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Committee (SLASIAC) in its Call to Action. We support the unified strategies of the UC libraries to ameliorate the negative effects of the impasse on faculty, researchers, and students, and applaud their efforts to closely monitor alternative access along with the impacts it may have on research and teaching. . . .
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"UC Terminates Subscriptions with World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research"
The University of California has released "UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research."
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As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.
In negotiating with Elsevier, UC aimed to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by ensuring that research produced by UC's 10 campuses — which accounts for nearly 10 percent of all U.S. publishing output — would be immediately available to the world, without cost to the reader. Under Elsevier's proposed terms, the publisher would have charged UC authors large publishing fees on top of the university's multi-million dollar subscription, resulting in much greater cost to the university and much higher profits for Elsevier. . . .
Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's reasonable contract terms, which would integrate subscription charges and open access publishing fees, making open access the default for any article by a UC scholar and stabilizing journal costs for the university.
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"KU [University of Kansas] Libraries Negotiate Deal with Scholarly Journal Publishers to Mitigate Cuts"
"Memorial: William Gosling, 1943–2019"
ARL has released "Memorial: William Gosling, 1943–2019."
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At University of Michigan (U-M), Gosling served as university librarian from 1997 to 2005. Under his leadership, U-M became one of the initial partners in the Google Books Project, which grew into the HathiTrust Digital Library. Before becoming university librarian, Gosling was assistant director for technical services and library systems at U-M from 1986 to 1997. Prior to that, he served as head of technical services at Duke University Libraries from 1976 to 1986.
Complete obituary from the Ann Arbor News.
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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2017–2018
ARL has released ARL Annual Salary Survey 2017–2018.
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This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during FY2017–2018. Data for 10,518 professional staff members were reported this year for the 114 ARL university libraries, including their law and medical libraries (862 staff members reported by 72 medical libraries and 715 staff members reported by 74 law libraries).
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"New Leader for Harvard Library"
Harvard University has released "New Leader for Harvard Library" by Alvin Powell.
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Martha Whitehead, who has led the library at Queen's University in Ontario, has been named to lead Harvard Library, the largest academic library in the world and the nation’s oldest.
Whitehead had been Queen's University librarian since 2011 and vice provost since 2014.
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John Wilkin Given Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award: "University Librarian Recognized for Achievements in Library Automation"
The Illinois News Bureau has released "University Librarian Recognized for Achievements in Library Automation."
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"He managed the partnership with Google to digitize the University of Michigan's collection, eventually leading to the foundation of the HathiTrust. As executive director of the HathiTrust, John established a model for shared governance and large-scale collaboration that secured sharing provisions for member libraries," [Bruce] Johnson said. "In his current role as university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John continues to lead innovation efforts, particularly in the area of research data curation. All of these achievements have had far-reaching impact in the library profession and beyond, providing a foundation for transformation in publishing, research and unprecedented access to digital content."
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Dean of Libraries at University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is recruiting a Dean of Libraries.
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The University of Kentucky is seeking a transformative leader to serve as Dean of Libraries. The dean will lead with passion, creativity, and intelligence to cultivate an environment for interdisciplinary discovery and research, while transforming the libraries into hubs of life-long learning. This position will work collaboratively with library and academic leadership to direct the college and support the goals of Kentucky’s flagship, land-grant university’s strategic plan.
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"Delayed Retirements and the Youth Movement among ARL Library Professionals"
Dean, University Libraries at University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting a Dean, University Libraries.
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The University of Maryland seeks candidates who are committed to building a great university library acknowledged on the regional, national, and international stage. We seek candidates who can leverage our considerable academic strengths as a major research university, the unique advantages offered by our location, and our overriding commitment to excellence in education and research. The successful candidate must be dynamic, strategic, entrepreneurial, and innovative in recognizing and exploiting opportunities as well as in identifying and overcoming constraints.
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"Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel Named Next Brown University Librarian"
Brown University has released "Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel Named Next Brown University Librarian."
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Meisel has served as deputy provost since his arrival to Brown in 2010 and as interim University librarian since Aug. 1, 2018. . . .
Meisel holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Columbia University. . . .
Before coming to Brown, he spent 11 years at the Mellon Foundation as a program officer for research universities and humanistic scholarship.
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Associate University Librarians at Cornell University
Cornell University is recruiting two Associate University Librarians.
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All qualified candidates are invited to apply, however particular emphasis will be placed on the candidates' abilities to supervise personnel and support strategic initiatives in two broad areas: (1) special collections and (2) information technology and digital research.
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Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian at Harvard University
Harvard University is recruiting a Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian.
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In his or her capacity as the Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the incumbent has an additional reporting relationship to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is responsible for the leadership and administration of the major libraries and numerous departmental and specialized libraries within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), including but not limited to a centrally administered unit within the FAS that is referred to as the Harvard College Library (HCL). HCL includes Widener, Lamont, Cabot, Houghton, and many departmental and specialty libraries.
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ARL: "Press and Library Directors Summit Report and Slides Available"
ARL has released "Press and Library Directors Summit Report and Slides Available."
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) hosted the second meeting of press and library directors with reporting relationships (P2L2) in San Francisco, California, on June 20, 2018. The P2L2 Summit focused on shared practices, projects, shared opportunities and challenges, open access sustainability, and the provosts’ value of the P2L relationship.
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"Talia Chung Named University Librarian and Vice-Provost at University of Ottawa"
"ARL Will Retire SPEC Survey Program in 2018"
"Adaptation: the Continuing Evolution of the New York Public Library’s Digital Design System"
Jennifer L. Anderson and Edwin Guzman have published "Adaptation: the Continuing Evolution of the New York Public Library's Digital Design System" in the Code4Lib Journal.
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A design system is crucial for sustaining both the continuity and the advancement of a website's design. But it's hard to create such a system when content, technology, and staff are constantly changing. This is the situation faced by the Digital team at the New York Public Library. When those are the conditions of the problem, the design system needs to be modular, distributed, and standardized, so that it can withstand constant change and provide a reliable foundation. NYPL's design system has gone through three major iterations, each a step towards the best way to manage design principles across an abundance of heterogeneous content and many contributors who brought different skills to the team and department at different times. Starting from an abstracted framework that provided a template for future systems, then a specific component system for a new project, and finally a system of interoperable components and layouts, NYPL's Digital team continues to grow and adapt its digital design resource.
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