Posted December 4, 2015
Full/Part Time: Full Time (37.5 hours/week) Duties/Description: Due to an anticipated retirement, the East Longmeadow Public Library is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Library Director. The Director provides leadership and direction to seven full-time and twelve part-time unionized staff in a busy, customer service-oriented library serving a suburban community of 16,000 in the…
Posted December 4, 2015
The South Kingstown (RI) Public Library has an opportunity for a full-time Children’s/Young Adult Librarian at the Kingston Free Library. This position is responsible for providing direct service to children, young adults, adults and parents by providing information and recommending and locating materials; provides reference assistance with school assignments; coordinates weekly story times and a…
Posted December 4, 2015
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2016 A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture. University of British Columbia – Saturday, April 30, 2016 Many Worlds to Walk In: Exploring Diversity in Children’s Literature, Librarianship, and Education is a one-day conference on April 30, 2016 showcasing graduate student research in children’s literature. You…
Posted December 4, 2015
Share your love of reading with members of small Bolivian communities and work as a Literacy Ambassador leading a book club in one of our libraries. Several libraries have already implemented these clubs and they are so effective! Want to work with kids, adults and teachers to promote a love for reading and literacy? Then apply…
Posted December 4, 2015
The Digital Government Society (DGS)announces the17th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research –dg.o 2016, which will be hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai, PRChina from June 8-10, 2016. The dg.o conferences are an established forum for presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary research on digitalgovernment, political participation, civic engagement, technology innovation, applications, and practice. Each year…
Posted December 4, 2015
2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyCopenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/\ Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association…
Posted December 4, 2015
Description of Position Beginning in fall 2016, this librarian will spend 50% of his/her time in Brentwood and 50% of his/her time on the Pittsburg campus. The librarian will to get to know the current Brentwood students while increasing library reference, instruction and outreach services at the Brentwood Center. While working 50% at the Pittsburg…
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…
