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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 listings. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Web and Digital Projects Developer ,  Duke University,  Durham,  NC Web Services Developer (Web Designer), University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job

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 listings. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Coordinator of Information Technology, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL eScholarship Operations Coordinator, UC Office of the President, Oakland, CA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job posting.

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 listings. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week Applications Developer, The New York Public Library, New York, NY Head, Information Technology and Applications Department, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, Atlanta, GA OCLS Librarian , Central Michigan University,  Mount Pleasant,  MI Senior Librarian, Baker and McKenzie, Chicago, IL Web Services Developer, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job posting.

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 listings. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks. New This Week: Reference Librarian,  Hazard Community & Technical College, Hazard ,  KY Visit the LITA Job Site for more available jobs and for information on submitting a  job posting.

A LITA Member Update (periodic messages sent to all LITA members) from Executive Director, Mary Taylor was sent out today. The update includes information about the following: Election Open Movers & Shakers Announced ITAL March Issue and ITALica Available Tech Set named 2011 Best Book in Library Literature Webcourse on Mashups and APIs Annual Conference Information Award Winners Announced Full text of update: http://eepurl.com/c52AE

John Wilkin has been named the winner of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing Limited co-sponsors the award. Mr. Wilkin serves as the associate university librarian for Library Information Technology and Technical and Access Services in Ann Arbor, Mich. and is the executive director of HathiTrust. In addition to his work on the HathiTrust and the Google Books project, Mr. Wilkin was the primary investigator on a number foundational grants and projects including a Mellon Foundation grant for creating an OAI harvesting platform, and was the principal investigator in the Making of America IV, the American Voice project, a grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for conversion of 7,500 19th century US imprint monographs. Over the last 18 years, he has researched and published in the fields of digital libraries, open source software and multi-institution collaboration. His work in…

Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs will be held April 18-22, 2011 and presented by Karen Coombs of the OCLC Developer Network and Jason Clark of Montana State University Libraries. Live, synchronous lectures will be presented each day from 10:00 am – 12 noon CDT. This five-day course will help participants learn how to bring pieces of the web together with library data: del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation. Learn what an API is and what it does, the components of web services, how to build a mashup, how to work with PHP, and how to create web services for your library. Participants should be comfortable with HTML markup and have an interest in learning about web scripting and programming. This hands-on course is synchronous with a daily lecture followed by a hands-on exercise. Instructors will be available for any questions during the exercises. By the…