Category: News & Noteworthy

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. 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 University Librarian for Special Collections, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC   Director, Client Relations & Quality Assurance(Job ID# 5678),  Lone Star College System, Houston, TX Director of Curation Services, ICPSR/University of Michigan,  Ann Arbor, MI   Learning Commons Reference/Instruction Librarian,  Zell B. Miller Learning Center, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA Humanities Liaison Librarian for Spanish and Latin American Studies, 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.  

 Gail Hackett, UMKC Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, has announced the following: “I am pleased to announce the appointment of Bonnie Postlethwaite as Dean of University Libraries for a two-year term, effective July 1, 2012. As the current Associate Dean of Libraries with a long history of administrative service and an extensive knowledge of UMKC and its complex libraries’ system, Postlethwaite is particularly well suited for this appointment. Since coming to UMKC in 2006, Associate Dean Postlethwaite has provided leadership, strategic direction and administrative oversight for University Libraries operations, including the Miller Nichols Library, which houses the LaBudde Special Collections and Marr Sound Archives and the Music Media Library, the Health Sciences Library (Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy) and the Dental Library. Among her accomplishments as Associate Dean, Postlethwaite has led the development of the University Libraries strategic plan and its implementation. She has worked with the Dean of…

The LITA Board is meeting online on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 11:00 am CDT. Anyone may join the meeting by clicking the following link 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting: https://wfu.webex.com/wfu/j.php?ED=151748522&UID=1241898202&PW=NN2U0OWZkNDlh&RT=MiM3. The meeting number is 641 130 480. You will be provided a few options for audio connectivity. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: LITA. Lauren Pressley, LITA Board director-at-large, is hosting this meeting. If you have any technical questions, please contact Lauren at pressllm (at) wfu.edu. The meeting agenda and documents will be posted in the LITA Board Connect Community. If you have any questions, recommendations, or wish to discuss any of this, please leave a comment.

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. 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 Library Technology,  McConnell Library, Radford University, VA Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Yale University, New Haven,  CT  System Administrator,  Naperville Public Library, Naperville, IL   Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job posting.

John F. Helmer, executive director of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, has been named the 2012 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Helmer will receive a cash award and citation at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at the LITA Award Ceremony, during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Named in honor of one of the pioneers of library automation, the Atkinson Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management, and has made notable improvements in library services or research. “John Helmer is recognized as an effective leader and champion of new ideas and initiatives in academic libraries,” said Mary Carmen Chimato, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award committee chair and assistant dean of the University of the Pacific Library. “The committee was impressed with John’s breadth of experience, professional contributions, and his ability to facilitate collaboration across 36…

LITA is pleased to announce G Sayeed Choudhury as the 2012 winner of the  Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.  The award, which is jointly sponsored by OCLC, is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having a positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information, or the processes by which information and data is manipulated and managed.   The awardee receives $2,000, a citation, and, travel expenses to the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, where the award will be presented on June 24th. Mr. Choudhury was especially recognized by the award jury for his leadership in the field of data curation through the National Science Foundation supported Data Conservancy project, which expands the capabilities of research libraries in serving researchers and the institutions of which they are…

Clifford Lynch has been named the winner of the 2012 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology, cosponsored by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The award recognizes outstanding persons or institutions for their long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. It consists of $1,000 and a certificate of merit. Art Hendricks, LITA/Hi Tech Award Committee chair, said, “Arguably few people have done more to disseminate ideas and deepen our knowledge about the digital future than Clifford Lynch.”  Dr. Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997.  CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. Dr. Lynch holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where…

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 11:00 a.m. 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 CARL ILS Software Sales Executive,  CARL Corporation,  Denver, CO Director of Library Information Technology (JOB ID 2435), California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA Product Manager, Data Services #2082 Organization, OCLC,  Dublin, OH    Research Instruction and Data Librarian for Social Sciences – Tisch Library (Tufts University- Medford), Medford, MA   Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job posting.

The online polls opened on Monday, March 19; the polls will close on Friday, April 27.  For a preview of the LITA slate, all LITA candidates’ ballot information is available on the 2012 LITA Election page.  Please thank the Nominating Committee for going the extra mile to provide LITA members with a full slate when one candidate had to withdraw within days of our being able to make any change.  This year the LITA ballot also includes a proposed Bylaws change addressing the Nominating Committee development of the slate. LITA members who are ALA councilor candidates include:  George J. Fowler, Susan Castleberry, Karen G. Schneider, Jennifer Cabanzan (Canezal), Joan S. Weeks, Jim Kuhn, Aaron Dobbs, Kevin Bruce Gunn, Steven K. Bowers, Peggy Cadigan, Courtney Louise Young, Elisabeth Leonard, ShuYong Jiang, Cynthia D. Clark, Mario M. Gonzalez, and Eric D. Suess.