LITA Jobs

Jobs in Information Technology: December 30, 2015

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: Minnesota State University, Mankato, Systems Librarian, Assistant Professor, Mankato, MN Multnomah County Library, IT Public Computing Solutions Engineer, Portland, OR Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative, Automation Systems Librarian, Mankato,MN Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.

2016

LITA at ALA Midwinter – Boston

If you’re going to ALA Midwinter in Boston, don’t miss these excellent LITA activities.  Click the links for more information.  And check out the entire: LITA at ALA Midwinter schedule Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm LITA “Makerspaces: Inspiration and Action” tour at Midwinter! How do you feel about 40,000 square feet full of laser cutters, acetylene torches, screen presses, and sewing machines? Or community-based STEAM programming for kids? Or lightsabers? If these sound great to you Register Now Saturday, January 9, 2016, 10:30 am to 11:30 am, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center – 104 BC All Committees, and all Interest Groups, meetings This is where and when all the face to face meetings happen.  If you want to become involved in working with LITA, show up, volunteer, meet your colleagues, express your interests, share your skills. Sunday, January 10, 2016, 10:30 am to 11:30 am, Boston Convention &…

LITA Jobs

Jobs in Information Technology: December 23, 2015

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: University of Georgia, Digital Projects Librarian/Archivist, Athens, GA Mendocino County Library, Librarian I, Ukiah,CA Dartmouth College, Data and Visualization Librarian, Hanover, NH AbbVie, Research Information Scientist – Content Management (Systems Librarian), Chicago,IL MCCCD/Glendale Community College, Librarian, Glendale, AZ Lee County Library System, Senior Librarian, Digital Services Manager, Fort Myers, FL NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress, Data Jedi (Research Information Scientist), Brooklyn,NY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.

2016

Register for “Makerspaces: Inspiration and Action” at ALA Midwinter

How do you feel about 40,000 square feet full of laser cutters, acetylene torches, screen presses, and sewing machines? Or community-based STEAM programming for kids? Or lightsabers? If these sound great, you should register for the LITA “Makerspaces: Inspiration and Action” tour at Midwinter! We’ll whisk you off to Somerville for tours, nuts and bolts information on running makerspace programs for kids and adults, Q&A, and hands-on activities at two great makerspaces. Artisan’s Asylum is one of the country’s premier makerspaces. In addition to the laser cutters, sewing machines, and numerous other tools, they rent workspaces to artists, offer a diverse and extensive set of public classes, and are familiar with the growing importance of makerspaces to librarians. Parts & Crafts is a neighborhood gem: a makerspace for kids that runs camp, afterschool, weekend, and homeschooling programs. With a knowledgeable staff, a great collection of STEAM supplies, and a philosophy…

LITA Jobs

Jobs in Information Technology: December 16, 2015

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: University of Texas Libraries, Senior Software Developer/Analyst, Austin, TX Cadence Group, Metadata and Systems Librarian, Greenbelt, MD Sales Representative, Southern Tier, Backstage Library Works, City to be determined, TX   Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.

News & Noteworthy

An Interview With LITA Emerging Leader Melissa Stoner

Tell us about your library job. What do you love about it? I work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Lied Library Digital Collections. I am the Workflow Manager for the Nevada Digital Newspaper Project, part of the National Historic Newspaper Project, a joint effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I have been a part of the Digital Collections team for a couple of years. Every year I learn something new about the work I am doing. I love my job because of the people I work with. I also love that I have the freedom to observe different aspects of the digitization process for many of our collections. At times I assist with managing the metadata of the different collections. We are currently utilizing TemaTres Controlled Vocabulary server to manage, publish, and share the ontologies and taxonomies we use in our collections….

LITA Jobs

Jobs in Information Technology: December 9, 2015

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: Business and Public Administration Liaison Librarian, Penn State University Libraries, Harrisburg Campus, Harrisburg, PA Assistant Professor – Instruction and Foundational Experience Librarian, Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, CO Assistant Professor – Online Education and Liaison Librarian, Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Collins, CO Sales Representative, Northern Tier, Backstage Library Works, City to be determined, IL Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.

General information

LITA Bloggers Reflect on LITA Forum 2015

Connections – Michael Rodriguez Several LITA bloggers, including myself, attended our first-ever LITA Forum in November 2015. For me, the Forum was a phenomenal experience. I had a great time presenting on OCLC products, open access integration, and technology triage, with positive, insightful audience questions and feedback. The sessions were excellent, the hotel was amazing, the Minneapolis location was perfect, but best of all, LITA was a superb networking conference. With about 300 attendees, it was small enough for us to meet everyone, but large enough to offer diverse perspectives. I got to meet dozens of people, including LITA bloggers Bill, Jacob, and Whitni, whom I knew via LITA or via Twitter but had never met IRL. I got to reenergize old comradeships with Lindsay and Brianna and finally meet the hard-working LITA staff, Mark Beatty and Jenny Levine. I formed an astonishing number of new connections over breakfast, lunch, dinner, and water coolers. Our connections were warm and revitalizing and will be…

LITA Jobs

Jobs in Information Technology: December 3, 2015

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: Acquisitions & E-Resources Librarian, DePaul University Library, Chicago, IL Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.

Original Content

Quick, Clear, Concise: Communicating Effectively

Recently I read an article that discussed digital signage at the San Jose State University library. The concerns raised by librarian Laurel Eby are very valid, especially if you don’t have any background in graphic design. Questions about content, slide duration, number of slides, and even branding are big questions that can impact how effectively your message gets across. Many, many jokes have been made about how short our attention spans are lately. (Ooh, look – a kitty!) But when you’re designing things that are meant to get – and, hopefully, keep – a person’s attention, there is a seed of truth behind the joke…and you can’t ignore it. Because if you ignore that, then your patrons will ignore you. When I studied television production, we were told about the “elevator pitch”. If you’re not familiar, imagine you’re in an elevator with a famous director – let’s say Steven Spielberg….