Posted September 26, 2017
Long-Term Temporary Employment Opportunity Boston, MA Immediate openings Para-Professional Catalogers Full-time positions available in Boston, MA Fully benefitted after 2 months, with paid time off accrual and 8 paid holidays per calendar year Job Description The expected duration of this project is approximately 8 months (November-June), working 5 days (37.5 hours) per week. The Catalogers…
Posted September 26, 2017
*Call for workshop papers: Computational Archival Science: digital records in the age of big data.* *The workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Boston, MA, USA, in conjunction with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2017 <http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/>. See call for papers at: http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/ <http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/>***** Submission Deadline: October 10, 2017 ***** The large-scale digitization…
Posted September 26, 2017
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue on Reproducibility in Information RetrievalExtended Submission Deadline: October 6, 2017 ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ)http://jdiq.acm.org/ ** Guest editors ** Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy, [email protected] Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, [email protected] Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, [email protected] ** Aim ** Information Retrieval is a discipline that…
Posted September 26, 2017
ACM CHIIR 2018 Call for Papers and Proposals http://sigir.org/chiir2018/ ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pronounced “cheer”) which will take place during March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Conference Scope and Topics Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. ACM CHIIR 2018…
Posted September 26, 2017
Guest Editors: Marika Cifor and Jamie A. Lee Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a “governing rationality” of contemporary life and work, increasingly encroaches on the Library and Information Studies field. The shift towards more conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns has led to LIS scholarship…
Posted September 26, 2017
If you need a bit of financial help to get through your graduate program, scholarship funds are now available. The American Library Association (ALA) has more than $300,000 available to students who are studying in library science or school library media programs at the master’s degree level. Get your application in early. The deadline to…
Posted September 26, 2017
Are you someone who is looking for an internship opportunity which will enable you to meet and network with established and emerging leaders from all over the world – and live in a palace for three months? Salzburg Global Seminar is keen to find self-motivated and pro-active interns to assist across our departments with research, development,…
Posted September 26, 2017
The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks to hire an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to provide leadership and oversight for academic programs at the School. The iSchool participates in a campus-wide undergraduate minor and Ph.D. in Informatics, and it offers a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, a Master of Science in Information Management, a Master…
Posted September 26, 2017
The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks to hire up to four outstanding full-time faculty members (rank open) to join our dynamic and collegial School. Preference will be given to the following specializations, but strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply. Information retrieval & data analytics–natural language processing, machine learning, and data…
Posted September 26, 2017
The Watertown Free Public Library is looking for teen services librarians. Our busy mid-sized library serves a diverse population of people with a broad catalog of needs. In one day visitors might ask for directions to a local concert, help requesting books for a term paper, recommendations for the teen who is a reluctant reader,…
