Posted December 4, 2015
Share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando! The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative library program; an analysis of…
Posted December 4, 2015
Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016)co-located with 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2006)17 March 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USAhttp://sauce2016.dei.unipd.it Nowadays, IIR continues to increase in complexity: user tasks and needs are demanding; data and information…
Posted December 4, 2015
The University of South Florida, School of Information (see http://si.usf.edu) is inviting applications to join our faculty in thearea of data science. This position is at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure track), and we encourage recent PhDs and ABDs with astrong expectation of completing the dissertation by Aug, 2016 to apply. The successful candidate will join our…
Posted December 4, 2015
Institution: Middleborough Public Library Job: Circulation Technician Full/Part Time: Part Time Duties/Description: The Middleborough Public Library seeks a motivated, friendly and energetic individual for the part-time position of Circulation Technician for the library. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, flexible and able to deal well with people. Duties to include a full range of circulation desk functions including…
Posted December 4, 2015
April – May, 2016, 10 hours/week Under the supervision of the Archivist and Manager of Digital Initiatives, the Manuscripts Collections Preservation Intern will assist in the physical stabilization and pre-processing of paper-based 18th and 19th century collections documenting Newport institutions and social organizations. This is an excellent opportunity for a student interested in archives and preservation to gain hands-on experience…
Posted December 4, 2015
Fairfield Public Library, Fairfield Connecticut, is seeking a Head of Youth Services who brings a vision for youth services, demonstrates leadership, creativity and innovation. The successful candidate will continue to implement and expand upon the outstanding programs and classes already developed for children, tweens and adults and continue to anticipate community needs. The successful candidate will apply experience and…
Posted December 3, 2015
An extraordinary opportunity for an extraordinary new children’s librarian. We welcome your interest in the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Fellowship. Harold W. McGraw, Jr. was an active supporter of Darien Library with a personal commitment to education and a belief in the important role a child’s library experiences play at the beginning of life-long literacy….
Posted December 3, 2015
The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta invites applications for one (1) full-time tenure track position. The date of the appointment, at the Assistant Professor level, will ideally be July 1, 2016. We seek candidates who are committed to teaching face-to-face and online in a student- and community-centred environment,…
Posted December 3, 2015
A position as Associate Professor in Communication and IT is available at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, beginning August 1, 2016. The candidate should have a clear research profile within Communication and IT as well as excellent teaching qualifications within programmes in communication and it. Research and teaching in communication and IT at the Department…
Posted December 3, 2015
Google-sponsored PhD studentship on Information Behaviour– focused on information and searching behaviour during confusing/complex search tasks.– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#googlephd Google-sponsored Research Internships– 3-month collaboration opportunity– also focused on information and searching behaviour during confusing/complex search tasks.– http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/jobs.php#googleintern 2yr Postdoc – Search User Interfaces for Music– aimed at designing new interactions for browsing/filtering music datasets– PhD background in user study…
