Hackathon at Umass Lowell
Posted March 3, 2016
Hawkathon @ Umass Lowell (UML Hackathon) Mar.25-26 Registration/Info: https://hawkathon.org/ (Register by March 1st; free but no travel reimbursements; MBTA accessible)
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Summer Technology Fellow, UP Education Network, Springfield, MA
Posted March 2, 2016
Summer Technology FellowSummer 2016 About UP Education Network UP Education Network manages and operates five schools in Boston and Lawrence, MA. We serve 2,600 elementary and middle school students. UP is invited by local school districts to restart chronically underperforming district schools as UP Academies. Each UP Academy shares the same mission: to ensure that…
On-Call Librarian Substitute Pool/On-Call Reference Librarian, Springfield City Library, Springfield, MA
Posted February 29, 2016
Call for Scientific Workshops: SEMANTiCS 2016 – The Linked Data Conference Transfer // Engineering // Community
Posted February 26, 2016
12th International Conference on Semantic SystemsLeipzig, GermanySeptember 12 – 15, 2016http://www.semantics.cc Important Dates (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)* Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 3, 2016* Workshop Proposal Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2016* Workshop Website/Call for Papers Online: April 15, 2016* Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2016* Workshop Paper Camera-Ready Deadline: July 26, 2016* SEMANTiCS…
Data Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland OH
Posted February 25, 2016
An exciting opportunity exists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland to serve as a member of the Research Library staff focused on licensing and managing data. The individual in this role will play a vital role in establishing best practices for acquiring and managingndata assets in the Bank. The successful candidate will handle vendor negotiations, data reference, and…
Scholarship to attend DC Blockchain Summit
Posted February 19, 2016
The MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative and the Chamber of Digital Commerce have recently announced 30 scholarships for young women and underrepresented minorities to attend the DC Blockchain Summit at Georgetown University on March 3. The scholarships are being offered to people of color and women between the ages of 18-25. The summit will be the first of its kind held in D.C….
Call for Chapters: Collection Development and Management in Massive Digital Libraries
Posted February 19, 2016
Proposals Submission Deadline: March 30, 2016Full Chapters Due: July 30, 2016Submission Date: October 30, 2016 Introduction The growth of digital libraries from mere subsets of existing library collections to proportions that rival the largest traditional library print collections has surpassed even the most optimistic predictions. With this swift change, however, comes greater responsibility for librarians…
Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting, Dublin, OH
Posted February 17, 2016
Education and Training & Library Theory and Research Sectionshttps://publish.illinois.edu/ifla-set-ltr-2016/call/Theme: “International Quality Assessment of LIS Education Programs” Date: 10 August, 2016; 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Venue The Conference Center at OCLC, 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017, USA http://conference-center.oclc.org/home.html – Close to Columbus, reachable by taxi Description of Theme The Section on Education and Training (SET)…
Call for Papers: Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play
Posted February 16, 2016
Extending Play 3: Temporalities of PlaySchool of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJConference Dates: Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2016Proposals Due: April 3rd “History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as…
Call for Papers: Digital dE-BiAsing Techniques for an Engaged Society
Posted February 16, 2016
DEADLINE: March 11, 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 – Professor Swedish School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Boras, Sweden Professor Stephan Lewandowsky – Chair in Cognitive…