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 Director for Administrative Services , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
2013 Election Slate
The LITA Board is pleased to announce the following slate of candidates for the 2013 spring election as follows: President-elect Frank Cervone Rachel Vacek Councilor Aaron Dobbs Holly Yu Directors at Large Jason Battles Brett Bonfield Jennifer Reiswig Andromeda Yelton The slate was recommended by the Nominating Committee. Tom Wilson is chair of the Committee and Karen Schneider and Ranti Junus are the Committee members. The Board thanks the Nominating Committee for all their work.
Jobs in Technologies: December 19
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 Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting. Customer Experience Manager, Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT Faculty Librarian with Outstanding Tech Skills, 9 month , Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ Head of Systems, University Libraries (Job #989924), Kent State University, Kent, OH Library Technology Coordinator, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
December issue of ITAL Available
The December issue of Information Technology and Libraries is available at: http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/issue/current Issue contents are listed below. To receive automatic notifications of future issues, please subscribe to ITAL here: https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/notification/subscribeMailList. Please note the the first volume of the Journal of Library Automation (JOLA), first published in 1968, is also now available online. JOLA was the predecessor to Information Technology and Libraries. Additional volumes will be published shortly. Suggestions and feedback are always welcome: please send to Bob Gerrity, ITAL Editor, at gerrityr (at) gmail.com. Information Technology and Libraries Volume 31, Number 4 (December 2012) CONTENTS Editorials Bob Gerrity Editor’s Comments http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/3012 Ed Tallent Editorial Board Thoughts: Technology and Mission: Reflections of a First-Year Library Director http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/3001 Articles David Ward, Jim Hahn, Kirsten Feist Autocomplete as a Research Tool: A Study on Providing Search Suggestions http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/view/1930 As the library website and on its online searching tools…
Jobs in Technologies: December 12
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 Educational Technology & Reference Librarian, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jobs in Technologies: December 5
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 Library Web Applications Developer, Rice University, Houston, TX Engineering Liaison Librarians, The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, PA Systems Librarian, Xavier University of LA, New Orleans, LA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Jump-starting a career as a digital librarian
The skills of digital librarianship are more crucial than ever, and these same skills are in high demand outside the field, from tech startups undertaking digitization projects to digital humanities centers bringing together professors, computer scientists and information technologists. “Jump-Start Your Career As a Digital Librarian: A LITA Guide,” published by ALA Neal-Schuman, helps readers map out a career in this fast-growing field. Editor Jane Monson gathers a full range of perspectives in this clear, concise overview of the core concepts and competencies of digital librarianship. Twenty-one experienced practitioners from a variety of settings offer realistic views of today’s job market, typical project dynamics and employer expectations. New graduates just starting out as well as seasoned professionals transitioning from other areas will benefit from this book’s valuable coverage of topics such as: Activities and roles of the digital librarian, including management of digital projects and collaboration; Developing and using transferable skills; Becoming familiar with…
Jobs in Technologies: November 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 Coordinator of Reference and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI Digital Asset & Knowledge Manager, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
LITA workshops at ALA Midwinter Meeting
LITA is offering two full-day workshops, to be held from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Friday, January 25 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Building Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript: An Introduction to HTML5; Washington State Convention Center, room TCC 204 Speaker: Jason Clark, Montana State University Geolocation, Native video, Offline storage, Semantic markup elements, Responsive web design, Canvas elements, Voice input, Drag and Drop, Opacity, Gradients… HTML5 has been released and is changing the way web developers work. With wide support in mobile browsers and the latest browser releases from Google and Firefox, HTML5 is poised to be the technology that will help build the next version of the Web. In this workshop, we’ll look at some of the possibilities, trends, and enhancements that HTML5, CSS3, and the new Javascript APIs enable. As a workshop deliverable, we’ll talk through the specifics of implementation and work…
Jobs in Technologies: November 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 Library Director, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dothan, AL Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.