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Posted June 29, 2017
Recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available to a global audience. In addition, new collections of born-digital documents will be readily available to support a multitude of objectives of their diverse, worldwide stakeholders. Demographics such as family members, journalists, social services providers, and policy makers can all benefit from access to these…
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Posted June 29, 2017
NFAIS Half-Day Virtual Workshop – Can funding for R&D be separated from political agendas?Date: Monday, July 31, 2017Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EDTLocation: VirtualRegistration: https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=531330 What’s the focus?NFAIS intends to tackle the rarely addressed subject of R&D, STEM, and Humanities funding in light of the vagaries brought about by changes in government policies. The near-current…
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Posted June 29, 2017
SEMANTiCS 2017 – The Linked Data Conference 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, NetherlandsSeptember 11 -14, 2017http://2017.semantics.cc For details please go to: https://2017.semantics.cc/calls Important Dates (Posters & Demos Track): Submission Deadline: July 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2017 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Camera-Ready Paper: August 18, 2017 (11:59 pm,…
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Posted June 27, 2017
IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017 in Warsaw on August 16-17Data Curator’s Roles and Responsibilities: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectiveshttps://ifla.wdib.uw.edu.pl/ Please join us for the IFLA Satellite Meeting “Data Curator’s Roles and Responsibilities: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” jointly organized by IFLA Library Theory and Research Section (LTR), IFLA- Preservation and Conservation Section, and IFLA- Information Technology Section, and…
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Posted June 27, 2017
Volume 15 Issue 1 (June 2017) of the Journal of Library and Information Studies, JLIS (ISSN: 1606-7509) is now available! The full-text of the articles in this issue can be found at http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/: Evaluating music discovery tools on Spotify: the role of user preference structure by Muh-Chyun Tang, & Mang-Yuan Yang Academic Performance of Indigenous Issues-…
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Posted June 27, 2017
The American Library Association’s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy <http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/JIFP> welcomes submissions related to intellectual freedom and privacy, both in libraries and beyond. Submissions can include: research articles (peer reviewed) non-peer reviewed articles and essays discussing or describing policies,practices,projects,law, and scholarship related to intellectual freedom and privacy personal accounts of censorship and intellectual freedom…
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Posted June 27, 2017
Registration for the Diversity by Design (DbD) symposium in Toronto is now open. The symposium will take place in Toronto, ON, over the gorgeous early autumn days of September 13-14, 2017. We have a limited number of spots available for the symposium, and they are filling up fast. Fortuitously, the symposium will also take place against the backdrop of the Toronto International…
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Posted June 27, 2017
Openings are continually changing and available for viewing at: www.londonderry.org/employment If you are a previous applicant please do NOT fill out a new application, use, or request again, the PIN # provided to you. SUPPORT STAFF Library Media Assistant, Moose Hill School (2034-22) Clerical skills, some experience in library work preferred, familiarity with computer operations and…
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Posted June 26, 2017
The Annenberg Library at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill MA is searching for 2 or 3 Library Assistants, applications accepted until August 18th. The Library Assistant supports the provision of information services to the Pine Manor College community. This is an excellent position for a beginning MLIS student. Previous library work experience is a…
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Posted June 26, 2017
INTRODUCTION The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. The CLEF Initiative is structured in two main parts: a series of Evaluation…
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