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Affordable Learning Librarian at Georgia Tech

The Affordable Learning Librarian will work collaboratively with teaching faculty, library staff, and other campus partners to promote the adoption of open and affordable learning materials and provide students and instructors with seamless access to library collections and course readings. The Affordable Learning Librarian will be excited about the future of classroom affordability and the role libraries play in promoting equitable and fair access to course materials.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd

Paywall: "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I."

It’s been estimated that ChatGPT is responding to something like two hundred million requests per day, and, in so doing, is consuming more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity. (For comparison;s sake, the average U.S. household consumes twenty-nine kilowatt-hours a day.)

https://tinyurl.com/ynrd4k4p

Systems Administrator II at Lawrence University

The System Administrator II position is responsible for critical campus servers and systems. The system administrator’s responsibilities include system installation and updates, administering both local and cloud hosted services, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues, as well as ensuring that all system operations run with optimal performance and security. The position requires a professional level of service and a commitment to customer service.

https://tinyurl.com/msudbrxy

"The ‘Must Stock’ Challenge in Academic Publishing: Pricing Implications of Transformative Agreements"

While several contract designs exist, the ‘publish-and-read’ (PAR) scheme is the one that comes closest to the ideal of an entirely open access environment: Publishers are paid a fixed case-by-case rate for each publication, which includes a fee for their extensive libraries. In turn, all subscription payments are waived. I theoretically derive that this contract design benefits the included publishers regardless of whether the number of publications in these publishers’ journals grows or declines. Consequently, widespread PAR contracts are likely to raise entry barriers for new (open-access) competitors even further.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03597

Intellectual Property (IP) Librarian at Georgia Tech

This position contributes to and supports a culture of entrepreneurship and commercialization at Georgia Tech by collaborating with stakeholders such as the VentureLab, CreateX, and the Office of Technology Licensing. This person provides IP programming and outreach for the patent, trademark, tangible property, and licensing needs of the Georgia Tech community. Individuals will plan and provide course-integrated instruction, workshops, and one-on-one consultations on intellectual property.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd

"Wiley Sees Light at the End of the Tunnel"

The Research group had more mixed results. Revenue rose 1%, to $256 million, but EBITDA fell 1% due to higher editorial and marketing costs and the continuing impact of the reorganization of its Hindawi unit. (Last year, Wiley suspended Hindawi’s open access publishing operations after its discovered a number of "compromised" articles; the company is in the processing of “sunsetting” the Hindawi brand and merging its operations into other Wiley groups).

https://tinyurl.com/mwkzw4xa

Electronic and Continuing Resources Librarian at Middlebury College

Oversees the library’s electronic and continuing resources, ensuring that they are widely accessible to the College community; helps promote the use of these resources; and coordinates the library’s response to access problems. This staff member plays a major supportive role in library systems functions, particularly those related to electronic resources and library collections.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ywz6t

"CACM [Communications of the ACM] Is Now Open Access"

For almost 65 years, the contents of CACM have been exclusively accessible to ACM members and individuals affiliated with institutions that subscribe to either CACM or the ACM Digital Library. In 2020, ACM announced its intention to transition to a fully Open Access publisher within a roughly five-year timeframe (January 2026) under a financially sustainable model. The transition is going well: By the end of 2023, approximately 40% of the ~26,000 articles ACM publishes annually were being published Open Access utilizing the ACM Open model. As ACM has progressed toward this goal, it has increasingly opened large parts of the ACM Digital Library, including more than 100,000 articles published between 1951–2000. It is ACM’s plan to open its entire archive of over 600,000 articles when the transition to full Open Access is complete.

https://tinyurl.com/yuph6ec3

Electronic Resources Librarian at Bridgewater State University

The Maxwell Library at Bridgewater State University seeks an experienced librarian to oversee all e-resources and related systems. The incumbent will provide leadership and expertise in acquiring and integrating electronic resources into the library’s collections. In addition, the successful candidate will work closely with liaison librarians, as well as systems and collection development librarians to ensure that the library’s digital collections and related policies and services are up to date, well managed, and positioned to support the University’s overarching goals of student success, and excellence in teaching, learning, and research.

https://jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/26948

Generative AI in Higher Education: The Product Landscape

Since last fall, Ithaka S+R has been partnering with 19 colleges and universities from the US and Canada to assess GAI’s impact on higher education and make evidence-based, proactive decisions about how to manage the far-ranging effects of GAI.[3] As part of this project, Ithaka S+R has been cataloging GAI applications geared towards teaching, learning, and research in the higher education context. Today, we are excited to make our Product Tracking tool (https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-product-tracker/) publicly available. . . .

This issue brief is designed to enrich the descriptive data captured in the Product Tracker. In the brief’s first section, we provide a typology of existing products and value propositions. In the second, we offer observations about what the product landscape suggests about the future of teaching, learning, and research practices, and speculations on the near-term future of the academic GAI market.

https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.320394

Full Stack Applications Developer at Cornell University

The Software Development department within Cornell University Library IT creates and supports applications that focus on library cataloging and discovery systems, digital preservation, online exhibits, publication repositories, websites, and collaborative use of linked data. Our work impacts a broad audience of academic users.

https://tinyurl.com/29dabr7f

"Innovative Open Research Publisher PeerJ Joins Taylor & Francis"

PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas of computer science, including AI, quantum, and robotics). In addition, PeerJ offers five titles in the Chemical Sciences, meaning that in total Taylor & Francis will welcome 7 new journals to its open research program.

All PeerJ journals offer high-quality peer review and rapid publication, supported by PeerJ’s own submission and peer review platform, and dedicated contributor support. Articles are selected on scientific value and methodological soundness, providing a forum for world-class research addressing many of the globe’s current challenges. PeerJ also hosts a digital hub for the International Association for Biological Oceanography, promoting the advancement of knowledge of the biology of the sea.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2unw2b

Digital Archivist at LAC Federal

LAC Federal is seeking a remote Digital Archivist to assist with enhancing metadata for digital collections to improve the discoverability of archival materials pertaining to women’s history. The Archivist will work collaboratively with museum, library, and archives staff to evaluate existing digital collections and make recommendations for enhanced or additional metadata to describe women using recognized metadata standards for libraries, archives, and museums including MARC, Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families, Encoded Archival Description, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/yj43xtfr

"Guest Post — Shared Print & Sustainability through the Looking Glass"

The collective tolerance of decision-makers for investing significant resources in retaining collections of potential rather than immediate value is decreasing. The solution is to encourage a diversity of organizations to design services that increase or release the value of the print we steward. As long as print continues to be published, there will be opportunities to link authors, ideas, and publishing aesthetic trends as well as libraries and users. Transforming print collections at academic libraries identifies ways in which print collections can serve as learning tools, literacy aids, and opportunities for using print in new ways collections that aren’t on the fast track to digitization. The library community needs to investigate even more ways to innovate with print.

https://tinyurl.com/5byncjun

Digital Preservation Manager at the IFI Irish Film Archive

The Digital Preservation Manager (DPM) is a senior manager position and responsible for the management and ongoing preservation of the digital collections, leading the Digital Collections Team to achieve this. The DPM is also has responsibility responsible for overseeing the Archive digital network and maintaining digital systems, equipment and infrastructure to ensure efficiency & productivity; this requires liaising with vendors, consultants and other relevant parties to make sure all systems work.

https://ifi.ie/about/jobs/

Paywall: "I Used Generative AI to Turn My Story into a Comic—and You Can Too"

After more than a year in development, Lore Machine is now available to the public for the first time. For $10 a month, you can upload 100,000 words of text (up to 30,000 words at a time) and generate 80 images for short stories, scripts, podcast transcripts, and more. There are price points for power users too, including an enterprise plan costing $160 a month that covers 2.24 million words and 1,792 images. The illustrations come in a range of preset styles, from manga to watercolor to pulp ’80s TV show.

https://tinyurl.com/54mj6t77

Data Visualization Analyst at Duke University

The Data Visualization Analyst is responsible for providing consultation, instruction and project support to faculty, students, and campus groups across Duke University supporting individual, class, and team visualization projects. The Data Visualization Analyst participates in the data science community at Duke and assists in developing and refining visualization services in concert with researcher needs.

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27281

OCUL [Ontario Council of University Libraries] Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Report and Strategy: Interim Report

This report describes use cases for machine learning relevant to the OCUL consortium and recommends projects utilizing machine learning technologies. It also considers key contextual issues such as ethical concerns, technical capacity, available expertise, and infrastructure needs. All sections are drafts with some sections more fully developed than others

https://tinyurl.com/38cjdn9p

Senior Applications Developer at Duke University

Provides computational support for Duke University Libraries’ mission of partnering with campus researchers. Develops new features and applications, while maintaining existing platforms and keeping software components updated to current releases. Participates in Agile development teams and consults with partners and stakeholders on digital initiatives. Acts as lead developer for selected software projects.

https://tinyurl.com/4axtsn9f

"Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study"

We provide an overview of the use of machine-learning and artificial intelligence at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). After surveying our major initiatives to date, which include the full transcription of the collection using a custom language model deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we address some ethical considerations we encountered, including the possibility of staff downsizing and misidentification of individuals in news recordings.

https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.805

Data Literacies Lead at Stony Brook University

Reporting to the Head of Academic Engagement, the Data Literacies Lead is responsible for building a robust data literacies program with campus partners to meet the needs of evolving data science and AI-related learning and scholarship.

https://apply.interfolio.com/141835

"Using AI/Machine Learning to Extract Data from Japanese American Confinement Records"

Purpose: This paper examines the use of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to extract a more comprehensive data set from a structured “standardized” form used to document Japanese American incarcerees during World War II.

Setting/Participants/Resources: The Bancroft Library partnered with Densho, a community memory organization, and Doxie.AI to complete this work.

Brief Description: The project digitized the complete set of Form WRA-26 "individual record"’ for more than 110,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in War Relocation Authority camps during WWII. The library utilized AI/machine learning to automate text extraction from over 220,000 images of a structured "standardized" form; our goal was to improve upon and collect information not previously recorded in the Japanese American Internee Data file held by the National Archives and Records Administration. The project team worked with technical, academic, legal, and community partners to address ethical and logistical issues raised by the data extraction process, and to assess appropriate access options for the dataset(s) and digitized records.

https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.850

Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University

As part of Duke University’s commitment to building a robust campus wide infrastructure for research data management, the Research Data Management Consultant (RDMC) provides consulting and instruction in the policies, resources, and methods of data management. The RDMC will partner with researchers, students, and other data management groups at Duke to develop a program that is responsive to local needs while informed by current developments in data management policy and technology. This position will also engage with national and international data management and curation groups in sharing best practices, coordinating efforts, and conducting research to improve academic data management and curation.

https://tinyurl.com/26emcczt

"The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University"

n the fall of 2022, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries began investigating Keenious—an artificial intelligence (AI)-based article recommender tool&mdashfor a possible trial implementation to improve pathways to resource discovery and assist researchers in more effectively searching for relevant research. This process led to numerous discussions within the library regarding the unique nature of AI-based tools when compared with traditional library resources, including ethical questions surrounding data privacy, algorithmic transparency, and the impact on the research process. This case study explores these topics and how they were negotiated up to and immediately following CMU’s implementation of Keenious in January, 2023, and highlights the need for more frameworks for evaluating AI-based tools in academic settings.

https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.800

Software Developer at University of Pittsburgh

At various times the Software Developer will perform in all areas of systems analysis, system design, needs assessment, software development, interface design and development, software support, and resource planning for numerous library-related applications. The Software Developer will work on data import/export processes and data transformations to move data between disparate systems.

https://tinyurl.com/5ejhmeej