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: Serials Librarian, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Head, Technology Systems and Support Services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Vice President for Libraries & Information Technology Services, CUNY Queens College, Flushing, NY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Year: 2015
Double Robotics fun at LITA Forum
Attention Forum registrants and procrastinators! Register for the 2015 LITA Forum in Minneapolis, MN by November 10th and be entered in a drawing to test-drive a telepresence robot provided by Forum sponsor, Double Robotics! 15 lucky winners will have the opportunity to try out networking and navigating the keynote presentations or concurrent sessions with a robot double. So if you haven’t already, take 5 minutes and register already. Also, accommodations are still available at the Forum hotel, the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, but they’re going fast. Are you the planning type? Design your Forum experience ahead of time by signing up for Forum events and activities on the Forum Wiki. Forum Sponsors: EBSCO, Ex Libris, Optimal Workshop, OCLC, Innovative, BiblioCommons, Springshare, SirsiDynix, A Book Apart, Rosenfeld Media and Double Robotics. See you in Minneapolis!
Get Social and Create Activities at the 2015 LITA Forum
The 2015 LITA Forum Online Registration ends Sunday November 8th at 11:59 pm. Minneapolis, MN November 12-15, 2015 Register Now! Join your LITA and LLAMA colleagues in Minneapolis, November 12-15, 2015 for the 2015 LITA Forum. On site registration will be available at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, where there are still some hotel rooms available at the conference discount rate. This year get social and create activities at the 2015 LITA Forum There will be many ways to get involved and “play” with your colleagues. The Forum wiki is the primary tool for additional activities, join in the listed fun and create your own activities for others to join you. You could: go bowling take a skywalk walk suggest game night games stay up late at a disco get up early for yoga The Networking dinners, on both Friday and Satuday evenings, are always popular and offer a wide variety…
A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept
Courtesy of Alex Berger under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license Introduction This is part two of my Linked Data Series. You can find the first post here. Linked Data is still a very abstract concept to many. My goal in this series is to demystify the notion. To that end I thought “wouldn’t it be cool to put Linked Data to practice, to build a proof-of-concept record”, so I did. I decided to create a Linked Data catalog record, because I wanted to write something relatively quickly, though I later found out that even writing a simple catalog record in Linked Data was going to be more effort than I anticipated. About the Record Link to display record: link Link to visual graph of record: link Link to code: link First, here’s a link to the display record. It might take a second to load, as it is pulling in…
Jobs in Information Technology: October 28, 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: Enterprise Content Management Specialist I/II, County of Tulare, Visalia, CA Developer (Ingest and Operations), Digital Public Library of America, Boston (or Remote), MA Life & Allied Health Sciences Librarian, #9213, The University of Akron, Akron, OH Collection Management Librarian, #9218, The University of Akron, Akron, OH Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.
Passively Asking for Input: Museum Exhibits and Information Retention
One of my main research interests is in user experience design; specifically, how people see and remember information. Certain aspects of “seeing” information are passive; that is, we see something without needing to do anything. This is akin to seeing a “Return Materials Here” sign over a book drop: you see this area fills a function that you need, but other than looking for it and finding it, you don’t have to do much else. But how much of this do we actually acknowledge, little less remember? Countless times I’ve seen patrons fly past signs that tell them exactly where they need to find a certain book or when our library opens. It’s information they need but for some reason they haven’t gotten. So how can we make this more efficient? I visited the Boston Museum of Science recently and participated in their Hall of Human Life exhibit. Now, anyone…
Editorial Response to “Is Technology Bringing in More Skillful Male Librarians?”
Hi LITA members (and beyond): My name is Brianna Marshall and I am the editor of the LITA blog. Last week, the post “Is Technology Bringing in More Skillful Male Librarians?” by Jorge Perez was published on the blog. The post has understandably sparked considerable discussion on Twitter. Jorge has indicated an interest in writing a follow up post to clarify his viewpoints vs. the viewpoints expressed by the authors he cited, so I won’t speak for him beyond saying that I believe his intentions were to highlight issues around the stereotyping of male librarians. In his communications with me, he indicated that the provocative title and brevity was intended to spark a conversation with blog readers, not to be flippant about the issues. Again, I will let him provide clarification on the content of the post itself. As I looked at the conversation on Twitter, I noticed a number of comments that implied that the viewpoints, quality,…
Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know – 2, a LITA webinar
Attend this informative and fast paced new LITA webinar: Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know – 2 Monday November 2, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time Register Online, page arranged by session date (login required) We’re all awash in technological innovation. It can be a challenge to know what new tools are likely to have staying power and what that might mean for libraries. The 2014 LITA Guide, Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know, highlights a selected set of technologies that are just starting to emerge and describes how libraries might adapt them in the next few years. In this 60 minute webinar, join the authors of three chapters from the book as they talk about their technologies and what they mean for libraries. Those chapters covered will be: Impetus to Innovate: Convergence and Library Trends Presenter: A.J. Million This presentation does not try and predict…
Is Technology Bringing in More Skillful Male Librarians?
Yes the title of this blog post is sensational. After reading Chapter 7 from Hicks’ 2014 book titled Technology and Professional Identity of Librarians, I was appalled to read that the few male librarians in our profession are negatively stereotyped into being unable to handle a real career and the male dominated technology field infers that more skillful males will join the profession in the future. There is a proven concept that the competitive environment of technology is male dominated. If this is true, then will more males join librarianship since it is becoming more tech-based? There are a lot of things that are terrible about all this – males have tough stereotypes to overcome and there is a misconception that technology is the omen that will bring in more capable male librarians to the field. I am going home early to sit at home, cry, read a scholarly book, and…
Jobs in Information Technology: October 21, 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: Web Developer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Assistant Director – Library Information Technology Services, Kansas State University Libraries, Manhattan, KS Digital Library Developer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Assistant Professor – Information Literacy and User Services Librarian, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY Instructor or Assistant Professor – Web Services/Digital Content Librarian, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a job posting.