The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) has an immediate opening for a Director of NITLE Labs. This is a senior-level position with full benefits. The successful candidate can be located anywhere within the U.S. with easy access to a major airport.
A more detailed description and application information is available.
Eric (admin) on 20 January 2011 / Comment
Yale University invites applications and nominations for the position of University Librarian. The University seeks a visionary leader to collaborate with the President, Provost, faculty, staff, and students in positioning one of the world’s premier research universities for global leadership in the 21st century.
The Yale University Library is among the world’s leading research libraries, comprising some 13 million volumes in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to printed books and serials to electronic databases. It has particular strength in international collections, featuring holdings in more than 300 languages. The Library is housed in twenty buildings, including the Sterling Memorial Library, the renowned Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the new Bass Library, and various school and departmental libraries. It employs over 500 FTE staff and has an annual operating budget of over $80 million.
Reporting to the Provost, with access to the President, the University Librarian will assume the leadership of a complex and historic institution at a time of unprecedented change in the acquisition, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. He or she will develop and implement a vision for the Library in support of the University’s strategic plan; build a strong and effective leadership team within the Library; strengthen communication and information flow between the Library and its constituents; and manage the Library’s multi-faceted operations strategically during a time of constrained but stable resources.
Successful candidates will bring: an understanding of the major challenges facing research university libraries today; the capacity to collaborate and communicate with diverse constituencies of faculty, students, and staff; a successful history of staff development and team building; the capacity to understand and support scholarly research; an awareness of current trends in scholarly publication; the ability to manage a complex physical and virtual environment to deliver information services and preserve information in all formats; a willingness to seek out and obtain resources for the development of the Library; and the ability to balance support of the Library’s traditional collections and services with the development of new strategies to support scholarship, teaching, and learning.
The President has appointed a 14-member search committee to advise him on this appointment. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled. The committee welcomes the candidacies of individuals who bring appropriate skills and experience developed in settings other than the leadership of a research university library as well as those with more traditional experience and preparation.
Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Yale values diversity in its faculty, students, and staff and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minority candidates.
All inquiries, nominations, and applications should be directed with a cover letter in confidence to:
Brian Lizotte, Secretary
Librarian Search Committee
Office of the Provost
Yale University
P. O. Box 208365
New Haven, CT 06520-8365
Eric (admin) on 20 January 2011 / Comment
Thank you for your feedback and ideas about the 2010 DLF Forum and the future of the Forum you provided through various online surveys, tweets, and emails. Your participation was greatly appreciated and is helping prioritize and shape DLF activities for 2011.
Overwhelmingly, the community was supportive of a once-a-year DLF Forum event with additional DLF sponsored events and activities held at various conferences throughout the rest of the year. The community strongly supported a fall meeting, with spring a distant second, and summer receiving very little support. It was suggested that the Forums run slightly longer to allow for more activities.
Keeping all of these recommendations in mind, we have confirmed the 2011 DLF Forum location and dates and have begun planning additional events for the 2011 DLF Community Calendar.
The 2011 DLF Forum: October 31-November 2, 2011. The conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hyatt Regency (http://baltimore.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/), with 2 1/2 days devoted to the DLF Forum program.
Because the fall season is always so busy, are now exploring sites and dates for 2012 to find a suitable location on dates that do not conflict with other major conferences, holidays, and important civic duties.
Additional events for 2011 include support for the 2011 Code4Lib and ER&L conferences.
DLF is very excited to be sponsoring the CURATE Camp Hackfest preconference event at the 2011 Code4Libr conference. (http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011_Preconference_Proposals#CURATEcamp_Hackfest).
DLF is also providing conference support for the 2011 ER & L conference being held in Austin, Texas, February 28-March 2. Amy Sample Ward and Amanda French are the keynote speakers. If you are interested in e-resources, assessment, and their associated services/technologies, this is a great conference to attend. Conference info can be found here: http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/conference-info/program-speakers.
Plans are in the works for other 2011 conference events. Please do not hesitate to send me your suggestions or ideas.
So how will you know where DLF is going to show up, or how you can plan to be a part of these events? For now, we will post these events on the DLF-Announce list and other communication tools like Twitter (@CLIRDLF) and the DLF LinkedIn group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3387265). The ultimate goal is to have an interactive community calendar on the DLF web site, where all DLF hosted and sponsored events will be posted.
This brings me to the DLF web site. The old web site at www.diglib.org ceased to be maintained in 2010; all current DLF community information is located at http://www.clir.org/dlf.html . Working with Brian Leney of CLIR and Eric Celeste, we have begun the process of creating a new DLF web site.
The new DLF web site is under construction and we are seeking volunteers to help out with some beta testing and user feedback. Please email Brian Leney (bleney (at) CLIR (dot) org) if you are interested in helping us out. Testing begins at the end of January, with a public launch of the site scheduled no later than the end of February. We envision an active dynamic site that helps our community connect and collaborate.
2011 is shaping up to be a very energetic and exciting year for the Digital Library Federation Community.
I look forward to working with you to make it one of our best.
Happy New Year!
Rachel L. Frick
January 12, 2011
Brian on 20 January 2011 / Comments Off
Library Web Developer/Designer
Princeton University Library
Princeton, New Jersey
Requisition #1000633
The Princeton University Library comprises a large central library and nine specialized libraries that are heavily used by an academic community of 6,400 students, 1,100 faculty members, and many visiting scholars. To support the diverse needs of its users, the Library holds some six million printed volumes, ranging from incunabula to current imprints, and provides access to many other records of human knowledge, such as ancient papyri and cylinder seals, modern literary manuscripts, and recently produced electronic databases and journals. The Library employs more than 300 professional and support personnel, complemented by a large student and hourly workforce. Please consult the Library Web site at http://library.princeton.edu for more information.
Available: Immediately
Description and Responsibilities:
The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API’s made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. Conducting user-centric usability studies is highly desirable, so experience in this area will be preferred.
Qualifications:
Required:
Preferred:
Compensation and Benefits:
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience and accomplishments. Twenty-four (24) vacation days a year, plus eleven (11) paid holidays. Annuity program (TIAA/CREF), group life insurance, health coverage insurance, disability insurance, and other benefits are available.
Rank: This is an Administrative position; grade AIT030, 100% duty time.
Nominations and Applications:
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Nominations and applications (cover letter, resume and the names, titles, addresses and phone numbers of three references) will be accepted only from the Jobs at Princeton website: http://www.princeton.edu/jobs.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
Application Deadline Date: January 10, 2011
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER.
For information about applying to Princeton, please link to
http://www.princeton.edu/jobs
Eric (admin) on 17 January 2011 / Comment
The incumbent of this position will work in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. The incumbent will supervise approximately 4 to 10 information technology specialists working within one or more of the project-based sub-teams doing repository development. The incumbent will provide oversight and technical advice and counsel for the development of Web sites and applications, focusing on projects for the management, discovery and delivery of Library digital content.
Supervisory IT Specialist (Vacancy #: 100214)
GS-2210-14 — Office of Strategic Initiatives — $105,211.00 – $136,771.00
Opening Date: Jan 11, 2011
Closing Date: Feb 2, 2011
For more information, please visit the detailed posting.
Eric (admin) on 12 January 2011 / Comment
DLF is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Published in 2011 by the Digital Library Federation.
Some rights reserved.
Some notes on privacy.
