Posted March 29, 2016
Under the general direction of the Associate Director or designee, the Reference and Education Coordinator provides public health reference and instructional services to the state Public Health Departments and partner libraries participating in the National Public Health Coordination Office (NPHCO) strategic alliance. The Coordinator will work in concert with the National Network/Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)…
Posted March 25, 2016
Wage/Salary: $16.95 Job Description: recruiting a GS-5 Museum Technician position in Quincy, MA. The job entails preservation and protection of five historic exhibit areas including the “OLD HOUSE”, “two Presidential Birthplace homes, and a 12,000 volume library. Duties include; assisting in preservation housekeeping, scheduled cleaning of museum collections and artifacts including but not limited to historic books,…
Posted March 23, 2016
Open Source (OS) is an approach to design and development based on shared and open access to a common set of design artifacts, driven by volunteer communities, or “crowds”. The original form of OS, software development, is seen as a harbinger for future forms of organizing and innovation. Work is increasingly being conducted by crowds on software platforms such…
Posted March 21, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016 at The Radisson Hotel, Manchester, New Hampshire. The best of librarianship today calls for broad thinking and careful consideration of our complex social, economic, environmental, and political systems, both global and local. The 2016 ACRL/NEC conference will provide our professional community with opportunities to discuss how we can think holistically to implement engaging…
Posted March 18, 2016
Overview The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. The Research Data Specialist will support the Thoracic Oncology clinical research program in the areas of data collection, computing, and database organization….
Posted March 16, 2016
Join us at the annual DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting in Chapel Hill this summer to learn more about DataONE and contribute to a community of data managers, librarians, researchers and others that are changing the way we discover and use open data. Co-located with the ESIP Summer meeting, the DUG meeting is 2 days of plenary talks, community…
Posted March 13, 2016
Paper Submission Deadline: 15th May 2016 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSRí16) November 22-25, 2016, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy http://www.mtsr-conf.org/ The International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR’16) will be held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome…
Posted March 13, 2016
Digital dE-BiAsing Techniques for an Engaged Society (Debates)18th May 2016Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK The call for papers for the first Debates conference now closes on 24th March 2016. The overall topic for the Debates conference is the issue of negative behaviours in online social media and how these can be analysed and addressed by the research community. Keynote speakers are: Professor Annemaree Lloyd…
Posted March 7, 2016
The 38th European Conference on Information RetrievalCall For Participation 20-23 March 2016Padua, Italy http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/http://twitter.com/ecir2016 The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) will take place in Padua, Italy from 20-23 March 2016. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). ECIR 2016…
Posted March 7, 2016
For doctoral and early career scholars. Please send questions to Steve Sawyer at [email protected]. The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Calls for Participation in the 2016 Summer Research InstituteWhen: 27 June to 1 July, 2016Where: Skamania Lodge, Stevenson WA (one hour east of Portland, OR) To learn more about the venue, see: http://www.skamania.com. Deadline:…
