Posted July 19, 2013
Journal of Hospital Librarianship, a peer reviewed journal that considers all aspects of hospital/clinical librarianship, seeks original contributions to the column, Specialty of the House. First time authors are especially welcomed. The next submission deadline to the column editor is September 1st, 2013. “Specialty” columns can apply to almost anything – a special service or…
Posted July 17, 2013
The Massachusetts Library Aid Association (MLAA) Committee on Aid to Small Public Libraries is pleased to announce its Scholarship Program for the fall 2013 term. MLAA is a private foundation. The purpose of this program is to subsidize training in Library and Information Science for librarians and library staff who are presently employed in small…
Posted July 17, 2013
XML-focused Internship or Independent Study opportunity with Harvard Business School’s Publishing Group Harvard Business Publishing’s Higher Education unit sells content from HBS and other sources to business schools around the world via our Harvard Business for Educators website as well as a series of business-to-business delivery models. The content we sell includes Harvard Business School case…
Posted July 13, 2013
Architecture_media_politics_society, http://architecturemps.com/ is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of architecture and contemporary culture. Its focus is cross-disciplinary and, in addition to being a platform for publication, it also operates as a resource repository offering up-to-date materials for research. It represents an academic first: the combining of research materials and related academic publications on…
Posted July 11, 2013
http://asistsiged.wordpress.com/student-travel-award/ Nature of the Award: The award shall consist of a check for $400. Purpose of the Award: The purpose of the award is to assist a student in a Master’s or doctoral program in attending the ASIS&T Annual Meeting by defraying travel expenses. Eligibility:· Applicants must be SIG ED members at the time of application. (If you are not…
Posted July 11, 2013
Interns in the Research Room at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library assist professional reference staff in responding to research requests for textual (paper-based) archival collections. The intern’s primary responsibility will be answering reference requests from off-site researchers, including anyone from scholars to publishers to the general public, and covering a wide range of topics. Interns…
Posted July 9, 2013
We’ve finally finished a new, more user-friendly version of the Contribute plugin for Omeka, which should help the public more easily contribute to the archive (http://marathon.neu.edu/contribute). As the project becomes more public, we hope to gather a much wider collection of stories, photos, videos, and more from around the city and beyond. You can help…
Posted July 2, 2013
Position: Preservation Volunteer Location: Hingham Public Library Department: Historical Collections Description: Under the supervision of the Town of Hingham Archivist the preservation volunteer will work on several projects to ensure the historical materials at the Library are properly preserved. This work will include removing items from frames, placing photographs, textiles, paper documents, etc. in archival…
Posted July 2, 2013
Summary: The Imperial Valley Desert Museum is seeking an outgoing archive intern to implement the establishment of a new archive. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic entry-level professional with a deep interest in professional development, life-long learning, and a desire to establish archives as agents of identity. Location: The Imperial Valley Desert Museum is a new museum…
Posted June 24, 2013
Are you seeking a meaningful opportunity to make a contribution to the profession and higher education? As ACRL President Steven Bell indicated in his recent post, an ACRL task force (the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force) is in the process of extensively revising the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which were adopted in…
