Posted May 4, 2017
The ALISE Technical Services Education Special Interest Group seeks proposals for the ALISE 2018 conference being held in Westminster, Colorado from February 6 – 9, 2018. The conference theme is The Expanding LIS Education Universe. This call is open to anyone working in the field of library and information science, regardless of occupational label. The ALISE Technical Services…
Posted April 28, 2017
GENERAL SUMMARY: Assists with the management of electronic research services, activation of new users’ subscriptions, ordering and processing of print materials for the Research Center and troubleshooting of reported access issues. Also prepares Research Services orientation materials for new and lateral hires, orders attorney desk books and maintains corresponding system records for print and electronic resources….
Posted April 24, 2017
The job is ideal for someone with 1-3 years of web content/development experience (Drupal preferred), strong knowledge of HTML and CSS, too. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their marketing/designing/writing career. Description Reporting to the Associate Director Web Development, the Junior Web Producer will work with the digital team assisting with development…
Posted April 22, 2017
Overview Humanities scholars have historically used archives that include restricted or privacy-sensitive collections in order to conduct their investigations about sensitive topics. The recent developments in digitization and dissemination technologies present the possibility of making archival collections broadly available. Furthermore, collections of new, born-digital documents will be readily available to support and enhance scholarship. However, such access has also exacerbated threats to…
Posted April 22, 2017
Theme: Playing and learning together: Interdisciplinary research and teachingLocation: City West Campus, University of South Australia, AdelaideConference Dates: 28-30 November, 2017Submission deadline: Monday, 31 July 2017Acceptance notification: Friday, 1 September 2017 The 2017 RAILS conference will be hosted by the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, and held at UniSA’s City…
Posted April 22, 2017
Designing Your Instruction: Lessons, Programs, and Spaces The New England Library Instruction Group is pleased to announce its annual conference, which will be held Friday, June 9, 2017 at Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The program, “Designing Your Instruction: Lessons, Programs, and Spaces,” will explore ways that librarians incorporate design in developing information literacy…
Posted April 14, 2017
Special issue of Knowledge OrganizationGuest editor: Melissa Gill Knowledge Organization (KO) invites proposals for a special issue focused on knowledge organization within the museum domain. Museums, like libraries and archives, are information institutions for material culture. Museum knowledge organization is object- and context-centric, focusing on the unique instantiation of a particular object and its historical and cultural…
Posted April 14, 2017
Registration is now open for the 2017 New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians! For further information and to register: http://guides.library.umass.edu/BootCamp2017 This year’s Science Boot Camp will be held June 14-16, 2017 on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Amherst, Massachusetts. At Science Boot Camp you will explore key concepts and research in select subject areas, and engage…
Posted April 14, 2017
The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) is accepting paper submissions for two Research Forums at the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. The LRRT Research Forums will feature 20-minute presentations of library and information science (LIS) research followed by discussion. Proposals are due midnight Eastern on Monday, May 1, 2017. (See submission…
Posted April 7, 2017
Invisible Work in the Digital HumanitiesSpecial Issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (2018) GUEST EDITORSTarez Samra Graban, Paul F. Marty, Allen Romano, and Micah VandegriftFlorida State University PROJECT DESCRIPTIONAt a recent symposium at Florida State University, digital humanists, librarians, and technology specialists explored the challenges of diverging expectations, unequal labor, and invisible work in the digital…
