Posted January 11, 2018
Description The Perkins Research Library provides library and research support to a wide range of patrons. About half our questions come from Perkins staff, but the others come from K-12 students, their teachers, academics, practitioners, and people who are blind, both in the United States, and around the world. We have a small staff (one…
Posted January 11, 2018
Description Under the instruction of Alicia Morris, Assistant Director, Technical Services at the Tisch Library of Tufts University, this internship will entail gaining experience in technical services processes and practices: cataloging will include print material purchased for the general collection as well as special collections materials. Skills that the student will learn are searching and…
Posted January 11, 2018
Description The Technical Services Department at the State Library of Massachusetts is offering an unpaid internship for a current Simmons cataloging student interested in gaining practical cataloging experience in a unique library setting. The internship will focus first on RDA copy cataloging of monographs and serials in print format and then will focus on RDA…
Posted January 11, 2018
Background The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Working in partnership with regional and international organizations, ICIMOD aims to influence policy and practices to meet environmental…
Posted January 11, 2018
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to offer an award for the best unpublished manuscript submitted by a student or students enrolled in an ALA-accredited graduate program. Sponsored by LITA and Ex Libris, the award consists of $1,000, publication in LITA’s refereed journal, Information Technology and Libraries…
Posted January 11, 2018
Science and Engineering Librarian Librarian I or II UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The campus provides a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to…
Posted January 11, 2018
Spring 2018 AAPB Internship Opportunities Digital Collections Intern Description: The Digital Collections interns will work on several projects to become familiar with the AAPB’s digital collections workflows. The first phase will include metadata cleanup, metadata mapping, and ingestion of metadata and media files into AAPB management systems. The second phase will include assessing records for…
Posted January 11, 2018
Please join us for the 46th annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science/L’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information, May 30 – June 1, 2018. This year’s conference features a keynote from Dr. Katie Shilton from the University of Maryland, speaking on ethical interventions in big data. Proposals are due Monday, January 29, 2018. The full call is below,…
Posted January 11, 2018
LibGig, a division of LAC Group, is searching for a Library Clerk for a public library in the Los Angeles-South Bay area. This is a full-time employment position. The position has a schedule of Monday-Thursday schedule of 11 AM – 8 PM and Saturday from 8:30 AM – 5 PM. RESPONSIBILITIES Front desk duties including…
Posted January 11, 2018
Call for Papers: AMCIS 2018Minitrack #1: Social Theory in Information Systems Research (STIR ’18)Track: Social Inclusion (SIGSI) 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug. 16-18, 2018 New Orleans, LA, USA This minitrack solicits papers using social theory to critically examine ICTs and their roles in enabling and constraining social inclusion. What can be done to…
