Curator, The Morgan Library & Museum Archives
Posted: December 30, 2006 Filed under: Opportunities: Job Postings Comments OffThe Morgan Library & Museum seeks a curator to manage the institution’s Archives, which consists of records, papers, and printed material related to the family of Pierpont Morgan, the early history of the Morgan financial firms, and the institutional history of The Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum. The collection is actively consulted by researchers working in the areas of financial history, connoisseurship, social history, and art provenance. The curator is responsible for arrangement and description, research services, and collection management activities related to the Archives. He/she serves as an in-house resource on points of institutional history and manages the inactive records of the institution. The curator reports to the head of the department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts and works cooperatively with other curators in the department as well as professional staff in conservation, registration, cataloging, photography and education. The curator may supervise interns, part-time staff, and project archivists and assist with loans, exhibitions, fundraising, and other departmental responsibilities as appropriate.
Full posting at Metro.org
Featured Blog: The Tyro Librarian
Posted: December 19, 2006 Filed under: Personal Websites Comments OffIts really cool to celebrate others’ triumphs and encourage them during their challenges as we all learn on the job!
Tiffany is a new academic librarian who’s been blogging about her experiences at The Tyro Librarian. She says that her blog is a place “where a novice could ask questions, receive answers, and display the advice for other beginning librarians would be beneficial not only to me but other tyro librarians as well.”
VRA Southern California Regional Chapter FALL 2006 CHAPTER MEETING
Posted: December 13, 2006 Filed under: Opportunities: Meetings Comments OffVRA Southern California Regional Chapter
FALL 2006 CHAPTER MEETING
Tuesday, December 19
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
Fee: $10 for VRASC members, $12 for non-members
(please pay at the meeting; you can also pay for your membership or renewal at that time).
For more information: http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/VRASC/F06Mtg.html
Personal is the Professional is the Personal
Posted: December 13, 2006 Filed under: Advice: New Professionals, Advice: Students 2 Comments »Rachel at The Liminal Librarian wrote a post titled Think Personally, Act Professionally, which addresses the important issue of how what we write online in our personal lives may affect our professional lives. This is something that many of us will face as we begin our careers, especially in this age of freely available personal content on the internet.
She also points out that several other librarians have been considering issues of balance between the personal and professional commitments, which leads to the question, “How in the world do we avoid burnout?!”
These are great issues to address at the Backpack to Briefcase session in Atlanta.
Google’s ‘The Scream’ Theme
Posted: December 12, 2006 Filed under: Blogs, Fun 1 Comment »Hopefully no one feels too overwhelmed with the end of the academic semster and approaching holiday madness – if you are a bit stressed, Google’s logo today might express how you feel.
I found this via the Search Engine Land blog, which is a great forum for news about online searching. Subscribe to their feed today!
del.icio.us/arlisnap tag cloud
Posted: December 11, 2006 Filed under: delicious, [ Creating the ARLIS/NA Student Blog ] 6 Comments »ArLiSNAP now has a tag cloud for our links and resources on http://del.icio.us/arlisnap.
A Blog-Based Catalog?
Posted: December 8, 2006 Filed under: Blogs, Cataloging 1 Comment »A Blog-Based Catalog? Mellon-Funded Project Would Use LC Records
WordPress is a popular format for blogs—an open-source content management system. It is also the backbone for WP-OPAC, a pushing-the-envelope project from Casey Bisson, information architect at Plymouth State University (PSU), NH, which will use Library of Congress (LC) catalog records and redistribute them free under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license or GNU. Bisson was presented with a $50,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration for the project at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting in Washington, DC, on December 4. PSU will use the money for the LC records. The WP-OPAC will allow users to tag and comment on records, which will be more readily searchable by search engines. The still-emerging project represents a challenge to business as usual for catalogers. OCLC has been the source for catalog records for libraries, and its license restrictions do not permit reuse or distribution. However, LC catalog records have been shared via Z39.50 for several years without incident. “Libraries’ online presence is broken. We are more than study halls in the digital age. For too long, libraries have been coming up with unique solutions for common problems,” Bisson said. “Users are looking for an online presence that serves them in the way they expect.” PSU is committed to supporting Bisson’s project, and will be offering it as a free download from its site, likely in the form of sample records plus WordPress with WP-OPAC included. The internal data structure works with iCal for calendar information and Flickr for photos, and can be used with historical records. It allows libraries to go beyond LC subject headings, Bisson said. Other winners include: Open University (Moodle), RPI (bedework), University of British Columbia Vancouver (Open Knowledge Project), Virginia Tech (Sakai), Yale (CAS single signon), University of Washington (pine and IMAP), Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), and Humboldt State University (Moodle).
from Library Journal Academic Newswire (12.07.2006)
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Oxford, OH
Posted: December 7, 2006 Filed under: Opportunities: Job Postings Comments OffDigital Initiatives Librarian (from http://www.higheredjobs.com)
Review of applications begins March 1, 2007
Institution: Miami University
Location: Oxford, OH
Category: * Admin – Libraries
Posted: 10/17/2006
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time
Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH, has an opening in the Digital Initiatives Department for a Digital Initiatives Librarian. We seek a self-motivated, energetic, service-oriented, flexible team-player with a can-do attitude who is interested in applying information technology to library services; someone who can embrace an environment of continual improvement and change in an organization that strives to stay close to the cutting edge of technology. This position reports to the Head of Digital Initiatives. Read the rest of this entry »
AASL CONFERENCE AWARDS (Student and New Member)
Posted: December 7, 2006 Filed under: Opportunities: Conferences, Opportunities: Travel Awards 9 Comments »Association of Architecture School Librarians (AASL) announces
AASL Conference Student Award
Students who are currently enrolled in an ALA accredited graduate library school program or have recently graduated (within 12 mos. of graduation) are eligible to apply for an award that includes: $250.00 for conference travel, a waiver of the student conference registration fee, and a waiver of AASL membership dues for a period of one year.
AASL Conference Travel Award
Current AASL members who have belonged to the organization for a period of three years or less, or current AASL members who are first time conference attendees are eligible to apply for a travel award in the amount of $250.00.
Please see below for complete descriptions of the awards, application forms, and deadlines.
Word of the Day: Cybrarian
Posted: December 7, 2006 Filed under: Fun 1 Comment »The Word of the Day for December 06, 2006 is:
cybrarian • \sye-BRAIR-ee-un\ 
• noun
- : a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web
Example Sentence:
The library provided an e-mail address to submit inquiries to the cybrarian.
Did you know?
We’ve been using “librarian” for the people who manage libraries since at least the beginning of the 18th century, and the word was used for scribes and copyists even earlier than that. “Cybrarian,” on the other hand, is much newer; its earliest documented use is from 1992. “Librarian” combines “library” (itself from “liber,” the Latin word for book) and the noun suffix “-an,” meaning “one specializing in.” When people wanted a word for a person who performed duties similar to those of a librarian by using information from the Internet, they went a step further and combined “cyber-,” meaning “of, relating to, or involving computers or a computer network,” with “librarian” to produce the new “cybrarian.”
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