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 Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University-Forsyth Library, Hays, KS Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Science and Engineering Division, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, New York, NY Librarian – Systems and Technologies, Santa Barbara City College Luria Library, Santa Barbara, CA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
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Jobs in Information Technology: February 4
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 Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC Director of Library Services, Marymount California University, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Project Coordinator I, Library System Migration Expert, Contra Costa Community College District Libraries, Pittsburg, CA Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Technology Projects Coordinator, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: January 28
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 Digital Content Strategist, Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, IL Executive Director, Metropolitan New York Library Council(METRO), Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) New York, NY Systems and Technology Librarian, Catawba College Library, Salisbury, NC Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: January 21
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 Collection Strategist Librarian, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA Manager, IT, Yale University, New Haven, CT Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: January 14
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 Assistant/Associate Librarian (Data Curation Librarian), Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Business Librarian, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Library Director, Niles Public Library District, Niles, IL Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: January 8
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 Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, PA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: December 17
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 Coordinator for Digital Collection Services, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: December 10
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 Deputy County Librarian, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, CA Digital Access & Discovery Specialist, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN Librarian, Santa Barbara City College Luria Library, Santa Barbara, CA System Administrator, University at Albany, Albany, NY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Information Technology: December 3, 2014
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 Data Curation Specialist (2 positions), University of Illinois Library, Urbana IL Director of Online Strategy, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA LLSAP Service Manager – PrairieCat (Consortium Manager), Reaching Across Illinois Library System – RAILS, Burr Ridge, IL Online Content Specialist, Computercraft Corporation (NCBI, NLM, NIH), Bethesda, MD Technician V – Network Specialist, Tulsa City-County Library, Tulsa, OK Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Agile Development: Pros and Cons
Recently I’ve been involved in a couple of my library’s web development projects that have used the Agile development framework, so I thought I’d share how Agile can help or hinder technical projects. In my last (non-library) job I worked for a software company that chose to make a full-scale transition from traditional development to an Agile development environment, so this is a topic that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Agile, for those unfamiliar with the basic idea, is an attempt to streamline development work by focusing on producing modular pieces of software that perform simple tasks on their own, but also build on each other to form more complex tools (kind of like the Voltron of software development). So what are the advantages and potential pitfalls of Agile? Pros Focus on Usability: The basic unit in Agile development is the user story, which documents a specific…