Posted October 4, 2019
A Special Issue of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) ON DIVERSITY, RECORDKEEPING AND ARCHIVY We have grown so accustomed to using the word diversity as a value reflecting a spectrum of cultures and abilities that we often fail to see what Tania Canas has so candidly pointed out – “diversity…
Posted October 3, 2019
Outside the Box: Redefining Ethical Innovation in the Academic Library In what ways can libraries redefine instruction, services, and collection development in a manner that is thought-provoking, ethical, and innovative? This ongoing shift calls for change agents to curate, acquire, and build upon competencies, while establishing fresh and transparent benchmarks. Produced annually by the…
Posted October 1, 2019
The conference will take place at Aalborg University, Department of Communication and Psychology, under the theme Knowledge organization at the interface. The conference explores the connected themes of knowledge organization systems and their role in knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, and information searching. The conference will consider practical solutions as well as the theory behind…
Posted September 20, 2019
We’re hiring a developer to help us radically improve educational resources in the legal field (and beyond)! About the Job You’ll take the lead in building H2O, our platform for open legal textbooks and other resources. You’ll dive right away into ongoing efforts to enhance our annotation and export tools and modernize H2O’s frontend….
Posted September 20, 2019
The Digital Commonwealth’s 14th Annual Conference will be held on Tuesday April 7th, 2020 at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Digital Commonwealth’s Conference Committee invites interested speakers to submit abstracts of 1 page or less in length for presentations centered around the theme: Contextual Conversations: Representation and Digital…
Posted September 18, 2019
Date: 9/23/19 (Monday) Time: 4:00-6:30 pm Location: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, 3rd Floor, MCB The Expo is a targeted recruitment event with attending employers seeking to screen and hire for full-time jobs and internships. Recruiters are hiring across a range of different functions, including finance, marketing, operations, HR, technology, and more. Event Format Unlike…
Posted September 13, 2019
The Northborough Free Library is seeking a progressive, resourceful and customer-focused Reference and Adult Services Library Assistant to work part-time in our busy library. Responsibilities In addition to responding to patron inquiries, duties will also include assistance with the following: Cataloging Interlibrary loan Collection maintenance Readers’ advisory Assisting patrons with technology Posting content on…
Posted September 13, 2019
The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. The deadline for nominations is October 5, 2019. Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers…
Posted September 13, 2019
The online paper submission site for the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) is now open. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chiir2020 The paper submission guidelines are posted on the conference website: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/guidelines.html Please note the upcoming deadlines: October 15, 2019 for full and perspective papers; October 29, 2019 for short, demonstration, resource, and…
Posted September 11, 2019
CFP for Library History Seminar XIV Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge August 11-13, 2020 Librarians Without Borders : Historical Perspectives on Library Outreach This conference seeks to explore the history of library outreach in all of its forms. “”Librarian,” “library,” and “outreach” are defined in the broadest possible terms that still retain meaning….
