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Posted November 29, 2017
Workplace Incivility and Bullying in the Library: Perception or Reality? (webinar) 10:00-11:00am In this webinar, Shin Freedman will discuss her original national research on bullying and incivility in the library (“Workplace Incivility and Bullying in the Library: Perception or Reality?”College & Research Libraries, November 2016). Her research found that more librarians than library administrators, irrespective…
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Posted November 29, 2017
1 in 5: Disability Essentials in Your Library Earl Center for Learning and Innovation, Wheelock College, 180 Riverway, Boston 9:00am – 3:00pm According to federal statistics, one in five people in the United States has a disability. How can libraries better understand and support this population, and welcome them among our patrons and staff? Join…
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Posted November 29, 2017
MICRADS´18 – The 2018 Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security, to be held at Salinas, Ecuador, 18 – 20 April 2018, is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Defense and Security. We…
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Posted November 29, 2017
You are invited to participate in the upcoming DE-PERsonalisation 2018 workshop, that will be held as part of the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR (https://www.ecir2018.org). Important Dates:Papers submission: 10 January 2018 (midnight AoE) Notification of acceptance: 12 February 2018 Camera ready submission: 26 February 2018 (midnight AoE) DE-PERsonlisation Workshop: 26 March 2018 ECIR Conference: 26-29…
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Posted November 29, 2017
Innovation is an old word, of Greek origin, that came into the Latin vocabulary in the early Middle Age and into our everyday vocabulary with the Reformation. However, it is only during the second half of the twentieth century that innovation became a fashionable concept and turned into a buzzword. It gave rise to a plethora of terms like technological…
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Posted November 28, 2017
Kent State University School of Information Reinberger Children’s Library Center and the Marantz Picturebook Collection for the Study of Picturebook Art present the 2nd Bi-Annual Marantz Picturebook Research Symposium – Comics and the Graphic Narrative: The Future of the Movement. August 5-7, 2018 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Keynotes: Carol Tilley, PhD; Graphic Artist, Rafael Rosado Other notable…
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Posted November 28, 2017
How do gender and sexuality WORK in library and information studies? Gender and sexuality play various roles in the production, organization, dissemination, and consumption of information of all kinds. As categories of social identity, they do not act alone but in interaction and intersection with race, class, nation, language, ability and disability, and other social…
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Posted November 27, 2017
The Judaica Department with the Harvard College Library is currently hiring two less than half time employees. 1. Temporary Library Assistant (Hebrew) Supervised by the Lee M. Friedman Judaica Technical Services Librarian, assists in a variety of activities to help prepare Judaica Division data for migration to a new online system in July 2018. This is a…
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Posted November 23, 2017
Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship Applications Solicited MAC is soliciting applications for the 2018 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Minority Students (http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley). The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession as a whole….
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Posted November 17, 2017
LibGig is seeking Overnight & Weekend Library Assistants to cover the information desk at a prestigious University located in Malibu, CA. These roles are short-term, temporary roles to provide overnight coverage during the school’s fall semester finals. Coverage will need to be provided from December 3rd – 14th, with varying hours with all shifts being…
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