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Digital Library Systems Specialist at University of Glasgow

This role requires a good understanding of all library related systems and how they connect together, and the ability to support end to end processes across a range of teams and functional areas. It will also entail the introduction of new, innovative digital library services to the institution. As the library moves towards a system landscape increasingly based on the Software as a Service model, the emphasis in this role will be on a deep understanding of library workflows and the potential of IT systems to enhance and improve the library service, rather than upon software development skills. The successful candidate will work closely with Library Services colleagues with expertise in particular areas of the service (‘functional experts’), colleagues in IT Services, and with representatives of the system vendors.

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"The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy for Non-data librarians" (Video)

The NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy went into effect early last year. That means that the policy that so many medical data librarians have been talking about is finally in place and affecting researchers. Libraries do not need a data expert or an institutional repository to get started with supporting NIH grants with this new policy. Reference interviewing skills and a basic knowledge of the NIH DMS Plan format can be combined to walk researchers through the basics. In this session, librarians who are new to the NIH DMS Policy will learn the essentials: what is the NIH DMS policy, who is affected, and how do researchers incorporate it into an NIH grant application.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAj5rHpFd0

Electronic Resources Librarian at University of Tennessee

This position co-leads the Electronic Resources team within ACR which is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the Libraries’ electronic resources, including the renewing, licensing, preserving, activating, and troubleshooting of electronic resources. They will supervise, train, mentor, and evaluate 2 FTE.

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"Brigitte Weinsteiger Appointed H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries"

Weinsteiger has served as the Gershwind and Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications since September 2022 and as interim director since September 2023. In this capacity, she oversees the Penn Libraries’ $30 million budget for collections, its 10 million print and electronic volumes, 350,000 journals, and a rich array of digital resources. She leads the Collections and Scholarly Communications division of the libraries, ensuring that the selection, acquisition, management, and preservation of the libraries’ collections meet the diverse needs of the Penn community, and oversees outreach, teaching, and research support to faculty and students at Penn, in Philadelphia, and beyond.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhunz4t

Scholarly Resources Librarian at University of Toronto (Term)

Scholars Portal (SP), a digital library initiative sponsored by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and a division of the University of Toronto Libraries, seeks to hire a Scholarly Resources Librarian who has strong technical skills, demonstrated familiarity with metadata best practices in libraries, and is eager to work with diverse stakeholder groups at the local, regional, and national levels.

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Generative AI: "The Impossibility of Fair LLMs"

The need for fair AI is increasingly clear in the era of general-purpose systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and other large language models (LLMs). However, the increasing complexity of human-AI interaction and its social impacts have raised questions of how fairness standards could be applied. Here, we review the technical frameworks that machine learning researchers have used to evaluate fairness, such as group fairness and fair representations, and find that their application to LLMs faces inherent limitations. We show that each framework either does not logically extend to LLMs or presents a notion of fairness that is intractable for LLMs, primarily due to the multitudes of populations affected, sensitive attributes, and use cases. To address these challenges, we develop guidelines for the more realistic goal of achieving fairness in particular use cases: the criticality of context, the responsibility of LLM developers, and the need for stakeholder participation in an iterative process of design and evaluation. Moreover, it may eventually be possible and even necessary to use the general-purpose capabilities of AI systems to address fairness challenges as a form of scalable AI-assisted alignment.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03198

Head of Electronic & Continuing Resources at Emory University

Reporting to the Director, Resource Services in the Access & Resource Services (ARS) Division and serving as an area leader for Electronic & Continuing Resources (ECR), the Librarian is responsible for management, policy, planning and advocacy for electronic and continuing resources support within the Emory Libraries. This includes acquisitions, receipt, and processing of electronic resources, print serials, and binding operations, implementation, maintenance and review of licensed electronic resources and vendor products.

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"Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions"

All journals that apply for indexing in DOAJ need to demonstrate that they meet our current criteria, which include requirements for transparency, adequate peer-review processes, and clear and consistent copyright and licensing terms. Applications are reviewed by a member of the DOAJ editorial team or one of our specially trained community of volunteers, with the final decision on inclusion taken by a DOAJ Managing Editor. Only 24% of applications are accepted at initial application, but many journals use the advice given by our team to improve their procedures before reapplying.

https://tinyurl.com/4zn7d7hu

User Interface Designer and Developer at MIT Libraries

>The User Interface Designer and Developer will be a key member of the User Experience and Web Services team (UXWS), within the Discovery and Engagement Platforms (DEP) department. . . . Working closely with designers, developers, and engineers across the MIT Libraries, this individual’s key contributions will be creating visual and interaction designs, and translating those into front end code in order to implement fully accessible, inclusive solutions on both local and vended systems.

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"Measuring Data Rot: An Analysis of the Continued Availability of Shared Data from a Single University"

To determine where data is shared and what data is no longer available, this study analyzed data shared by researchers at a single university. 2166 supplemental data links were harvested from the university’s institutional repository and web scraped using R. All links that failed to scrape or could not be tested algorithmically were tested for availability by hand. Trends in data availability by link type, age of publication, and data source were examined for patterns. Results show that researchers shared data in hundreds of places. About two-thirds of links to shared data were in the form of URLs and one-third were DOIs, with several FTP links and links directly to files. A surprising 13.4% of shared URL links pointed to a website homepage rather than a specific record on a website. After testing, 5.4% the 2166 supplemental data links were found to be no longer available. DOIs were the type of shared link that was least likely to disappear with a 1.7% loss, with URL loss at 5.9% averaged over time. Links from older publications were more likely to be unavailable, with a data disappearance rate estimated at 2.6% per year, as well as links to data hosted on journal websites. The results support best practice guidance to share data in a data repository using a permanent identifier.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304781

Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at The Sullivan University System

Reporting to the Senior Director of University Libraries, the ERSL will have primary responsibility in three major areas. First, the ESRL will manage the life cycle of electronic resources. Second, the ESRL will manage the electronic systems for the library. Finally, the ESRL will support the consideration, adoption, and implementation of new library technologies.

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"Maggot: An Ecosystem for Sharing Metadata within the Web of Fair Data"

We developed Maggot which stands for Metadata Aggregation on Data Storage, specifically designed to annotate datasets by generating metadata files to be linked into storage spaces. Maggot enables users to seamlessly generate and attach comprehensible metadata to datasets within a collaborative environment. This approach seamlessly integrates into a data management plan, effectively tackling challenges related to data organisation, documentation, storage, and frictionless FAIR metadata sharing within the collaborative group and beyond. Furthermore, for enabling metadata crosswalk, metadata generated with Maggot can be converted for a specific data repository or configured to be exported into a suitable format for data harvesting by third-party applications.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.24.595703

Integrated Library System Administrator at Metropolitan Library System

This position is responsible for developing, implementing, administering, and supporting the Integrated Library System (ILS). This position collaborates with other Metropolitan Library System (MLS) departments, partner agencies, organizations, and vendors that use the system or utilize data from the ILS. Provides leadership within the library to develop and enhance the organizational commitment to innovation and participates nationally to ensure that the system uses the most current and effective technologies to serve guests and staff.

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Oxford University Press: "How Are Researchers Responding to AI?"

We recently conducted a survey of over 2,000 researchers across geographies, subject disciplines—including Humanities, STM, and Social Sciences—and different career stages to hear directly from the research community about how they are reacting to and using AI in their work.

https://tinyurl.com/235f5yxz

Data Librarian at Wichita State University

Developes and leads and programs designed to support students, faculty, and sta?on the use of data throughout the research lifecycle. . . .

Providesresearchconsultation and teaching in a variety of environments.

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"Narrowing the Lens: Preservation Assessment for Digital Manuscripts"

As a response to Ben Goldman’s 2011 call to action in RBM regarding born-digital manuscripts, this article revisits the topic thirteen years later. Drawing inspiration from Goldman’s work at the University of Wyoming, the authors attempt to narrow the preservation lens further by focusing on specific collections and considering factors like file types, risk, and resource availability. The authors suggest further humble, but practical, steps towards preserving born-digital materials, based on their experiences and while emphasizing the importance of contextual decision-making in the face of complex challenges.

https://tinyurl.com/yp4352mr

"Streetlight Effect in PubPeer Comments: Are Open Access Publications More Scrutinized?"

The Streetlight Effect represents an observation bias that occurs when individuals search for something only where it is easiest to look. . . . Our findings indicate that OA journals are 33% more prevalent in PubPeer [a Post-Publication Peer Review system] than in the global total (52% for the most commented journals). . . . However, after normalization, the results reveal that PPPR does not exhibit a Streetlight Effect . . . These results suggest that the process of scientific self-correction operates independently of publication access status.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05053-9

Lead Librarian at National Agricultural Library Digitization and Access Branch

In this position, you will be responsible for serving as the lead for general collection management, access services, and the digitization program. You will provide leadership by developing, maintaining, and communicating collection and digitization priorities, strategy, and roadmap. . . .

Manages the mass-digitization of library materials with production throughput of over 300,000 pages per year.

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Library Applications Developer at Cornell University

Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT) seeks an enthusiastic application developer to join our Digital Lifecycle Services team and to have a substantial impact on the evolution of the Library’s custom applications and integrations. We create intuitive and inclusive web applications and user experiences that focus on library services: description, discovery and access, digital preservation, publication, and collaborative inter-institutional efforts like HathiTrust and Google Books.

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"Towards Conversational Discovery: New Discovery Applications for Scholarly Information in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence "

Here, we. . . discuss how GenAI is moving us towards conversational discovery and what this might mean for publishing, as well as potential future trends in information discovery.

AI-powered features include natural language search, concise summaries, and synthesis of research. . . .

It [Scopus AI] has the ability to use keywords from research abstracts to generate concept maps for each query. Dimensions Assistant offers well-structured explanations. . . researchers can receive notifications each time content is generated . . . .

There are two types of AI/GenAI powered discovery systems: AI+ refers to native applications which can only be built based on GenAI (such as Chat GPT and Perplexity.ai), while +AI means AI/GenAI can be integrated to improve existing discovery tools and search engines such as Google and Bing.

https://tinyurl.com/53chtzu7

"4 Types of Gen AI Risk and How to Mitigate Them"

Risk around using gen AI can be classified based on two factors: intent and usage. Accidental misapplication of gen AI is different from deliberate malpractices (intent). Similarly, using gen AI tools to create content is differentiated from consuming content that other parties may have created with gen AI (usage). To mitigate the risk of gen AI content misuse and misapplication, organizations need to develop the capabilities to detect, identify, and prevent the spread of such potentially misleading content.

https://tinyurl.com/3shctfct

Assistant Director, Media Production and Makerspace Services at James Madison University

Provide leadership and strategic insights for the Media Production and Makerspace Services department.

Organize and manage media production activities within JMU Libraries.

Lead media production operations, including development, design, delivery, and oversight of media and related services.

Develop and maintain best practices for media production phases: video importing, editing, exporting, storage, studio recording, motion graphics, photography, graphic design, animation, and other related services.

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Paywall: "The Conflicting Needs of Now and Forever: Designing Streaming Media Services at an Academic Library"

This article provides an in-depth look at the changing demands of collections and services in addressing faculty requests for media, and outlines both a collection and a service strategy developed by librarians at the University of South Florida Libraries to provide faculty and students with access to diverse media titles in formats ranging from physical to streaming.

https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2024.2337581

Open Publishing Production Editor at Iowa State University

Reporting to the Scholarly Publishing Services Librarian, the Open Publishing Production Editor supports the publication of scholarly publications and open educational resources using multiple publishing platforms, including Janeway. This may include managing open-access publishing workflows, typesetting and layout of publications, reviewing content for accessibility compliance, supervising student assistants, and providing support and training for publication authors and editors. Collaborators include the Open Access and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Metadata Services, Digital Scholarship and Initiatives, and the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

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"Rob Ross Named Dean of University Libraries for Ohio University"

Ross currently serves as the executive director for NC LIVE for the NC State University Libraries. In this position, he serves as the chief administrative officer for the 209-member library cooperative that provides electronic resources, library software, and professional development to all UNC System universities, private colleges, community colleges, and public libraries in North Carolina. . . .

Before joining the NC State University Libraries, Ross served as the director of implementation programs for OCLC, Inc., in Dublin, Ohio; as interlibrary loan supervisor for Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts; and as library associate for the University of New Orleans.

https://tinyurl.com/f8kr8v4w