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Posted February 2, 2017
The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) seeks peer reviewers for its 2017 special issue: “Governance of Digital Memories in the Era of Big Data.” This special issue will discuss ethical issues regarding institutional memories’ governance in a digital context, which links to the ethics of remembering and forgetting. As we consider our developing digital…
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Posted February 2, 2017
The Analyst Institute helps Democratic and progressive groups figure out what really works in political and social justice campaigns. We share recommendations and provide education and training for the progressive community. We keep a low-profile, but we work with all the big name groups in the progressive ecosystem–labor unions, environmental groups, racial justice organizers, LGBTQIA…
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Posted February 2, 2017
“Computation Across the Disciplines” Marquette University’s Summer 2017 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program will run for ten weeks (May 30 to Aug 4, 2017). This program provides U.S. undergraduates with an intensive, faculty-mentored, summer research experience in the areas of applied mathematical modeling, high-performance computing and computational science, ubiquitous and embedded systems, data science, and math / CS education. …
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Posted February 2, 2017
ALA Seeks Proposals for 2017-2018 Diversity Research Grants The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services seeks proposals for the Diversity Research Grant program. Applications may address any diversity-related topic which addresses critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity, equity, and outreach issues within library and information science. The application deadline is March 1, 2017. Applicants…
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Posted February 2, 2017
The 2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Collaborative Information Retrieval and Seeking (ECol 2017)In conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2017)Oslo, Norway, March 11, 2017http://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/ <http://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/> DEADLINE EXTENSION : February 12 2017 PROVIDED DATASETS (Social and Collaborative) : http://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/resources.php <http://www.irit.fr/ECol2017/resources.php> You are invited to submit: Abstract papers (1 page): position…
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Posted February 2, 2017
Purpose and Overview Established to encourage professional and leadership development in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies librarianship, this scholarship enables master’s candidates in ALA-accredited library and information studies programs or in archival studies to attend the next SALALM annual conference, May 20-24, 2017, hosted by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since its founding in…
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Posted January 27, 2017
The Rhode Island Historical Society seeks an organized, detail oriented cataloging and curatorial assistant to work with our library and museum collections. Duties and Responsibilities: Create original analog and digital catalog records for archival, manuscript, and graphic collections and museum items. Inventory museum and graphic collections and the John Brown House Museum and the Museum…
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Posted January 26, 2017
Start Date: ASAP General Administrative Duties Assist the Administrative Assistant II and Interim Operations Manager, with any and all administrative duties as they may arise. Triage requests from students, faculty and external parties and relay to the Administrative Assistant II and Interim Operations Manager. The Dean’s Fellow will be supervised by the Administrative Assistant…
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Posted January 26, 2017
http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/SCST17/ Oslo, Norway (co-located with CHIIR 2017) March 11, 2017 Description & Objectives One of the current challenges in information access is supporting complex search tasks. A user’s understanding of the information need and the overall task develops as he or she interacts with the system. Supporting the various stages of this task involves many aspects…
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Posted January 25, 2017
“Alternative Literacies and Libraries : Historical Perspectives” Library History Round Table (LHRT) Research Forum, June 2017 The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks papers for its Research Forum at the 2017 ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, June 22-27, 2017. The theme of the Forum will be historical perspectives on…
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