Posted February 28, 2018
Apply to win an award for the SLA Conference in Baltimore 2018! With a generous donation from EBSCOhost, two DC/SLA members will be able to attend the Conference in Baltimore. Two awards will be given. One for Students and/or Young Professionals (0-5 years experience) and Established Professionals (5+ years experience). These awards will reimburse the recipients for…
Posted February 27, 2018
LAC Federal is seeking an experienced Reference Librarian to provide part-time (up to 20 hours a week) reference and research assistance at an academic library in Germantown, MD. This is a contract Librarian position that will start March 19 and conclude by May 12. Extension to summer and/or fall semester is possible but not guaranteed….
Posted February 27, 2018
The NSF Cyber Carpentry Workshop: Data Lifecycle Training <http://cybercarpentry.web.unc.edu/> is a two-week summer training program aimed at helping graduate students understand the many aspects of the data-intensive computing environment. Even more important, the workshop will focus on bridging the gap between domain scientists and computer and information scientists so that data-intensive research is quicker, less…
Posted February 27, 2018
Submission Deadline: 15th March, 2018 AIMS AND SCOPEThe exponential growth of social media as a central communication practice, and its agility in capturing and announcing breaking news events more rapidly than traditional media, has changed the journalistic landscape: social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media…
Posted February 27, 2018
IIPC WEB ARCHIVING CONFERENCE 2018: Call for ProposalsWEB ARCHIVING HISTORIES AND FUTURESNational Library of New ZealandWellington 13-15 November 2018 Web archiving is now into its third decade of practice and there is much experience to reflect upon and many achievements to acknowledge. It is also a critical time to look to the future and to…
Posted February 27, 2018
ECSCW 2018: The 16th European Conference on Computer-SupportedCooperative Work The International venue on Practice-centred computing and the Design ofcooperation technologies Nancy, France, June 4-8, 2018 Website: http://ecscw2018.loria.fr/==========================================The ECSCW conference is an important venue for defining and furtherdevelop the agenda of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work research witha focus on the in-depth understanding of human practices and on thedesign…
Posted February 27, 2018
CHIIR 2018 Workshop on Barriers to Interactive IR Resources Re-use Thursday, March 15 2018, 9:00-17:00 http://biirrr2018.aau.dk The goal of the BIIRRR 2018 workshop is to serve as a starting point for a community-driven effort to design and implement a platform for the collection, organization, maintenance, and sharing of resources for interactive information retrieval (IIR) experimentation….
Posted February 27, 2018
TITLE: Coordinator, East Asia Library Technical Services/Chinese Cataloger LOCATION: East Asia Library THE LIBRARIES Serving three campuses, the University of Washington Libraries is one of the largest and most innovative libraries in North America with collections exceeding 9 million volumes, over 500,000 electronic books, more than 120,000 currently received journal titles, as well as millions…
Posted February 27, 2018
Endicott College Diane M. Halle Library is hiring for a full-time staff position: Coordinator of Library User Services Provide service at the circulation desk: assist library users with wide range of activities, including registration, charging books out, returning books, reserve readings, and reference questions. Refer questions to reference librarian when necessary. Supervise student staff of approximately…
Posted February 27, 2018
Applications for the Outreachy May 2018 to August 2018 internships are now open: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/ Outreachy is paid, remote, three month internship program that helps people traditionally underrepresented in tech make their first contributions to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 and a travel stipend of $500. https://www.outreachy.org The timeline for this round…
