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NY Times Arts Arts News Blog NY Public Library ArtPosted by Carter on September 1, 2010
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is now accepting registrations for this three-part series on academic publishing for librarians. Each webcast has a separate $50 registration fee.
Webcast 1: Understanding the Research Question (September 23, 2010)
Webcast 2: Analysis and Writing (November 4, 2010)
Webcast 3: Submitting for Publication (December 1, 2010)
Please see ACRL’s site for full description of learning outcomes, date, and presenters for each webcast.
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Posted by Bryan Loar on August 26, 2010
Friends over at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Art & Museum Library & Information Student Society (AMLISS) will be kicking off the new semester with a meeting on August 31st at 7 p.m. Check them out.
Their listserv indicates that it is in room 301. I’m guessing that’s 301 here…
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
216 Lenoir Drive • CB #3360 • 100 Manning Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
(919) 962-8366 • Fax: (919) 962-8071 • info@ils.unc.edu
Have questions? Contact David Parisi, President; Frances McVay, Vice-President; Tessa Cierny, Treasurer; Shay Beezley, Secretary; or John Cowhig, Webmaster.
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Posted by arlisnap on August 26, 2010
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Posted by Bryan Loar on August 25, 2010
Via: libgig.com
Amherst College , Amherst , MA
Function
Leads the library’s efforts to produce, gather, organize, and disseminate digital content (a) useful to the curriculum, (b) in need of preservation, or (c) unique to the College and of use to the larger scholarly community.
Principal duties and responsibilities
● Provides vision and leadership for the creation and delivery of the Library’s digital content.
● Plans for the design, integration, and maintenance of the Library’s digital asset management and preservation program and systems.
● Provides overall administration of the Library’s digital collections—including but not limited to locally-produced and managed online manifestations of College-owned/copyrighted records, documents, publications, and artifacts—and its Digitization Center, including budget development and staff hiring, training, and management.
● Works collaboratively with colleagues in the Library—especially the Head of Library Information Technology, staff in Archives and Special Collections, Technical Services, and the Collection Development Group—to collect, catalog and promote digital resources. (“Collect” here refers both to purchases from sources outside the College and to the digitization of materials already held by the Library.)
● Collaborates with IT personnel across campus and relevant subject specialists to select and/or develop back-end systems and user-interfaces that present collections to audiences on campus and around the world.
● Coordinates the digitization of materials for e-reserves and for use by students with special needs, in collaboration with the Head of Access Services.
● Formulates, documents, explains, and interprets policies, procedures, and work-flows for the Digitization Center.
● Encourages development of technology initiatives that respond to or anticipate user needs.
● Participates in and encourages collaboration within Amherst College, among the Five Colleges, and with other institutions to build partnerships and facilitate cooperative projects. Works especially closely with Archives & Special Collections and Technical Services to identify collections that merit attention, to design projects, and to monitor and evaluate work-flows.
● Keeps abreast of new trends, tools, opportunities, and campus needs in digital libraries and repositories and their impact on metadata standards. Contributes to a continuous process of assessment to ensure enrichment of the Library’s digital collections.
● Promotes use of the Library’s digital collections. Participates in user education to integrate digital resources into teaching, learning, and research across the curriculum and beyond the College.
● Participates in regional, national and international organizations dedicated to the development of standards and best practices for the creation, dissemination, and interoperability of digital resources.
● Actively practices and advocates effective communication throughout the Library and across the College.
Qualifications
● Master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association or foreign equivalent.
● Minimum of three to five years’ academic library experience in digitization and digital assets management, including experience with systems such as DigiTool, CONTENTdm, Fedora, DSpace, or others.
● Experience supervising staff, including hiring, training, and conducting performance evaluations.
● Experience providing customer service and technical support for DAMS and other digital resources.
● Knowledge of art-history pedagogy, and the ways in which digital images can be marshaled to support the art-history and other curricula.
● Strong working knowledge of library systems and procedures, particularly metadata and cataloging standards and practices.
● Ability to work closely with colleagues from all Library departments and with students, faculty, staff and College administrators.
● Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
● Demonstrated analytical, organizational, planning, and project management skills. Experience managing personnel and equipment budgets.
● Demonstrable understanding of database systems and/or UNIX/Linux file structures and system management preferred.
● Experience collaborating with archives/special collections/institutional records preferred.
● Experience with repositories of scholarly digital materials a plus.
TO APPLY
Click here to apply
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Posted by Bryan Loar on August 24, 2010
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
Library Assistant
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world’s first museum dedicated to the living heritage of rock and roll music, is currently seeking candidates for the position of Library Assistant. Reporting to the Catalog and Metadata Librarian, the Library Assistant is responsible for processing incoming library materials, performing basic copy cataloging of library materials, assisting with acquisitions duties, and providing basic reference service to Library and Archives users.
A bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred. The qualified candidate must possess two to three years library experience, preferably in an academic, research, or special library environment; experience processing monographs and serials in an integrated library system, preferably Millennium and experience performing copy cataloging of library materials in several formats.
For consideration send resume and cover letter detailing your qualifications along with salary history to: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, 1100 Rock and Roll Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44114-1022, Attn: Human Resources – Library Assistant or e-mail at hr [at] rockhall [dot] org or fax to: (216) 515-1998. To see the detailed job description, please visit www.rockhall.com/careers.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is an equal opportunity employer and a
Drug Free Workplace.
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Posted by arlisnap on August 19, 2010
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Posted by Bryan Loar on August 18, 2010
All,
In order to better serve you and potential new members, we are moving our Facebook group to a Facebook page. This will allow you to stay informed within a platform many of you already use, and it will allow us to push out our content automatically.
We will be taking down the group on Friday, August 27. If you have any questions or concerns, please fee free to contact Bryan through Facebook or at bryan [at] theloars [dot] com.
Thanks,
Bryan Loar & Rosemary Davis, ArLiSNAP Coordinators
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Posted by jlausch on August 16, 2010
via ALA JobList:
Architecture Archives Curator
University of Florida – George A. Smathers Libraries,
Gainesville, Florida
Salary: $50,000 – $79,999
Status: Full-time
Posted: 08/05/10
Deadline: 09/07/10
Architecture Archives Curator
The University of Florida – George A. Smathers Libraries seeks an innovative and knowledgeable Architecture Archives Curator. This is a non-tenure accruing faculty position which manages and develops the Architecture Archives in the Department of Special and Area Studies. The Architecture Archives Curator will work closely with faculty and students in the College of Design, Construction and Planning, and will provide researcher assistance, instruction, and outreach to support academic programs in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, construction and design. The Architecture Archives Curator will work collaboratively with archivists and librarians in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, librarians in the Architecture and Fine Arts Library, and with digital and technical services librarians and staff to improve library services for users. A key responsibility of this position is to facilitate successful fundraising activities and other appropriate library development efforts: working closely with the Smathers Libraries Development Office, maintaining excellent relations with existing donors, and identifying and cultivating relationships with potential donors.
The complete vacancy announcement and application instructions are available at: www.uflib.ufl.edu/pers/careers.htm.
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Posted by jlausch on August 16, 2010
via LISjobs.net:
Job Title: Part-time Librarian
Organization: Museum of Northern Arizona
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona,
Description:
Department: Collections
Status: Exempt, Regular, part-time
Supervisor: Collections Manager
Position Description:
The Librarian is responsible for the daily management, organization and patron service for the Museum’s library holdings. The Librarian will implement practices and policies to ensure the long-term care of these collections. As needed, this position will aid the Archivist with duties relating to archives and will help the Archivist with archive access requests. The position works in a team-oriented environment with Collections Staff including the Archivist, Research Curators, and other museum staff. The Librarian will provide services to the research, education, collections, and other museum departments, as well as research associates, visiting scholars, museum members and the general public.
Major Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Plans, organizes, and monitors day-to-day Library activities
• Provides direct and indirect patron assistance on a daily basis, including resource retrieval, telephone answering, emailed requests, and photocopying
• Supervises and sets goals for student workers and volunteers, and assists them as needed
• Supervises or performs all tasks related to reference, acquisition, and processing of 75,000 published volumes, separates, maps and other media
• Keeps statistics on patron usage and reshelving of library materials
• Catalogues Library holdings in a computerized database
• Reports to the Collections Manager on projects, activities, statistics, records, and challenges.
• Is responsible for the conservation and physical care of all materials in the library and actively monitors its security in conjunction with all staff, volunteers, and the Facilities Manager in a team-oriented environment.
Education and Experience Requirements:
• Formal library experience and/or masters degree from an ALA accredited Library/Information Science school preferred. Demonstrable knowledge of reference services and metadata standards (MARC, AACR2) desired along with a working knowledge of database management.
Abilities, Skills, and Knowledge:
• Extremely high attention to detail
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all professional matters.
• Ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, with staff, trustees, vendors, and others to whom you represent the institution
Working Conditions:Generally work indoors, Monday through Friday, up to 7 hours per day. Position may require lifting of up to 50 pounds, bending and stooping, and sitting at a computer for long periods. Visual acuity is required for reading text and computer screens and printouts.
Must successfully pass a background check.
How To apply:
Send cover letter, resume, three professional references, and EEO Identification Form (located at the top of the employment section of this web site) to:
Human Resources
Museum of Northern Arizona
3101 N. Fort Valley Rd.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
or fax to 928-774-1229
or email in MS Word Format to pshriver@mna.mus.az.us. Please indicate in your cover letter the position you are applying for.
Application Deadline: Open until filled. EEO Employer
When applying, please mention that you saw this ad on LISjobs.com.
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Posted by jlausch on August 16, 2010
Marketing & Special Events Director – Kent Memorial Library, Kent
Marketing & Special Events Director – Kent Memorial Library in Kent seeks an individual to 1) develop programs for adults that meet the Library’s mission and service responses; 2) market overall library services; and 3) oversee art exhibits. Strong oral and written communication skills are essential as is knowledge of the basic principles of marketing and promotion of programs and events. Creative thinking is vital along with a warm welcoming attitude. Computer literacy required; desktop publishing and familiarity with modern communication methods such as Facebook and blogs a plus. Bachelor’s degree required with marketing, PR, advertising, journalism or communications preferred; some public library and/or non-profit experience preferred; demonstrated experience in producing news releases, newsletters, flyers, annual reports and programs. Ability to work under short time constraints and meet deadlines while managing multiple priorities & with minimal supervision essential. Sixteen (16) regularly scheduled hrs/wk including some weekends with additional hours as needed for programs. Salary commensurate with experience. Applicants will be required to bring a sample news release, poster, program proposal and art brochure based on specific criteria to the interview. Contact Laura McLaughlin (lmclaughlin@biblio.org) for more information and to apply.
Posted by Connecticut Library Consortium at 1:09 PM
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