Laurie Taylor (she/ella). Her work is geared towards enabling a culture of radical collaboration that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Kindness counts. Thoughts my own.
Job: UF Libraries – Chair, Digital Services & Shared Collections The Chair, Digital Services and Shared Collections position vacancy in the Technology & Support Services Division of the UF Libraries has been posted on Gator Jobs and on the Smathers Libraries recruitment webpage at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/careers.htmRead More →
POSITION VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: Instruction Consultant and Training Program Coordinator The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida is seeking an experienced, skilled, and dedicated individual to serve as the Instruction Consultant and Training Program Coordinator working in collaboration with and under the supervision of the Assistant Program Director for HR in managing the Smathers Libraries training and development efforts including assessing needs, establishing curriculum and evaluating outcomes. This position will be responsible for designing and assisting in the delivery of library-specific trainings for 300 library staff and faculty, as well as coordinating trainings offered through professional organizations, the UF Training and Development Office,Read More →
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture: seeks to enrich the intellectual potential of our fields to inform understandings of an expanding array of visual practices as they are reshaped within digital culture, while also creating scholarly contexts for the use of digital media in film, media and visual studies. By working with humanities centers, scholarly societies, and key library, archive, and university press partners, we are investigating and developing sustainable platforms for publishing interactive and rich media scholarship. The Alliance has strategic partnerships with four archives (the Shoah Foundation, Critical Commons, the Hemispheric Institute’s Digital Video Library, and the Internet Archive) and three university pressesRead More →
The University of Florida Libraries are now partner libraries in an innovative and extremely exciting new in-library eBook lending program. The original news release from Internet Archive is copied below and it explains the program. In-Library eBook Lending Program Launched Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Model San Francisco, CA – Today, a group of libraries led by the Internet Archive announced a new, cooperative 80,000+ eBook lending collection of mostly 20th century books on OpenLibrary.org, a site where it’s already possible to read over 1 million eBooks without restriction. During a library visit, patrons withRead More →
If you are a dynamic, knowledgeable, energetic, innovative, service-oriented individual, excited by the challenges facing today’s academic libraries, then the Texas A&M University Libraries is the place for you. We are seeking candidates with these attributes for a position to help describe and manage our growing digital library collections, faculty research collections, and data. This is a tenure-track position with faculty status and rank and requires the ability to meet the requirements of a tenure-track appointment. Entry-level librarians are encouraged to apply. Position Description: The Metadata Librarian is responsible for providing metadata expertise and serves as the primary resource on non-MARC metadata design, structure, andRead More →
The Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library (http://www.ulib.iupui.edu) seeks a creative, energetic, and service oriented individual to serve as a tenure track Digital Scholarship and Data Management Librarian with the Digital Libraries Team. Under the direction of the Digital Libraries Team Leader, this position will and be primarily responsible for enhancing University Library’s Program of Digital Scholarship through the development of a robust data service plan. The individual will also assist with the continued support of IUPUI University Library’s current digital scholarship tools and services including the institutional repository and journal publishing system. This librarian will have the following duties: Develop and support aRead More →
Apply here: https://careers.brown.edu (job number B01284) As the Library’s primary liaison to academic departments in the humanities, the Digital Humanities Librarian plays a central role in the integration of digital resources and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches into the research, teaching, and learning missions at Brown University. Together with other Scholarly Resources Librarians, the Center for Digital Scholarship and relevant library and campus partners, s/he will work to increase the understanding and application of digital scholarship among the institution’s faculty and students. S/he is expected to introduce and keep abreast of digital methodologies and to use such tools and skills in the solution ofRead More →
The job posting below is for FSU Libraries for an Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship & Technology Services. This will be an amazing job working with wonderful folks at FSU and collaborating with folks at other related institutions, like UF (where I am) and the Florida Center for Library Automation (both are in Gainesville). UNF in Jacksonville is also quite close, and even the more geographically distant universities are all frequent and friendly collaborators. Job Posting: Florida State University Libraries Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services (rank to be based on qualifications) The FSU Libraries seek an innovative, experienced information professional to workRead More →
Correcting text created by OCR (optical character recognition) is a great project for crowdsourcing because it can be isolated and scaled. Essentially, it can be made into a small task and the overall need can benefit from loads of small contributions, made through the small task interface. A great deal of digital library work can’t be sliced/scaled/isolated like this, and with so much work to do, it’s always nice when something can involve others for the benefit of everyone. The National Library of Finland recently came out with new games-as-tools for correcting OCR text, and their website explains: We need your help. Most of theRead More →
This is from the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries: In celebration of Black History Month, the HSC Library has created an album of ‘Historical Photos of African Americans in the Health Science Center.’ The photos are courtesy of the UF Digital Collections. The album is online, on the UF Health Science Center Libraries Facebook page and this is the direct link to the album.Read More →
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