“Your Career” includes presentations and workshops introducing delegates to tools and providing them with practical advice, helping them with professional development and their approach to advocacy within the workplace and profession.

These presentations and workshops cover a variety of topics including developing leadership skills, demonstrating value and a chance to talk to those experienced in professional registration.

The CILIP Conference brings delegates from across the world and from a broad range of sectors and, as well as a fantastic networking opportunity, students will be inspired by the conference sessions they hear and take part in. Session speakers will be sharing their experiences on subjects as diverse as copyright, data stewardship, information literacy, public sector partnerships, information governance, privacy, social media, user engagement plus many many more. Organisations represented include Carnegie UK Trust, Morgan Stanley, Bodleian Libraries, Tinder Foundation, Royal Shakespeare Company and Ministry of Defence. The seaside town of Brighton is only 1 hour from London by train.

Students receive a reduced entry for the two day conference – £120+VAT (normally £340+VAT).

Check http://cilipconference.org.uk for all the programme information and registration form.

INFORMATION, LIBRARIES AND DEMOCRACY

Third Call for Papers

Deadline extension: Submit you abstract until SEPTEMBER 30!

DEAR STUDENTS, PROFESSIONALS AND LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES LOVERS! In 2016, the annual BOBCATSSS symposium will be held in LYON, FRANCE, from JANUARY 27-29.

The 24th BOBCATSSS symposium is a European conference dedicated to Library and Information Sciences. The event is organized by students and teachers from Enssib, the National Superior School of Information Sciences and Libraries (France), the University Institute of Technology (university Paris Descartes), department of Information & Communication (France) and the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee – Knoxville (USA).

BOBCATSSS is a unique opportunity for students and young professionals to showcase their academic work, share ideas and build an international network in the LIS field.

Our chief goal in the 24th symposium is to bring together students, professors and professionals to discuss the topics of INFORMATION, LIBRARIES AND DEMOCRACY.

We welcome your contribution! The program includes paper presentations, workshops, poster exhibitions, short presentation sessions and invited keynote speakers. Details about the topics and guidelines are provided in the instructions below.

BOBCATSSS 2016 explores the main theme through several key topics:

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THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN DEMOCRATIC CULTURES

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INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AND CENSORSHIP

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LIBRARIES, OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN DATA

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PROTECTING PRIVACY

GUIDELINES

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS:

* PAPERS (8 pages maximum, 20 minutes talk)
* POSTERS (displayed during the conference, 5 minutes of presentation)
* WORKSHOPS (25 to 30 participants, 90 minutes maximum)

Each contribution must present the results of a research work. AN ABSTRACT (300-500 WORDS) FOR EACH TYPE OF CONTRIBUTION NEEDS TO BE SUBMITTED BY THE DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 via our conference tool.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Authors’ notification: OCTOBER 20, 2015
Full text papers submission via conference tool: OCTOBER 20 – DECEMBER 15, 2015
BOBCATSSS: JANUARY 27-29, 2016

For more information, go to our website: bobcatsss2016.com

Questions for us? talk@bobcatsss2016.com

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SEE YOU IN LYON!

With kind regards,

BOBCATSSS 2016 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

“OCLC Research is recruiting for a full-time, one-year position. Both master’s and Ph.D. graduates are encouraged to apply. [...] Application Deadline:  March 21, 2014″

Alle Details zur Position in der Stellenausschreibung.

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Weblog der New York Public Library: NYPL Wire

Digitalisierte Bestände der NYPL, frei zugänglich: NYPLDigital Collections (viele Photos!)

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Die American Academy in Rome sucht derzeit einen Collection Development Librarian für eine Vollzeitstelle. Bewerber können sich noch bis zum 30. März bei Sebastian Hierl melden. Infos zu Anforderungen und Stellendetails gibt es in der Stellenausschreibung.

Eine heftige Diskussion über Qualität von Open Access Journalen bzw. Mängel im Peer-Review-Verfahren generell wurde ausgelöst, nachdem John Bohannon die Ergebnisse seines “Experiments” veröffentlicht hat:

Over the past 10 months, I have submitted 304 versions of the wonder drug paper to open-access journals. More than half of the journals accepted the paper, failing to notice its fatal flaws. Beyond that headline result, the data from this sting operation reveal the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing.

(in: Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? Science Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65. DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60)

Einige Pressestimmen:
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2013/oct/04/open-access-journals-fake-paper
http://www.sparc.arl.org/blog/science-magazine-open-access-sting
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/498221367/
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/science-reporter-spoofs-hundreds-of-journals-with-a-fake-paper/

Insbesondere im Hinblick auf die kommende Open Access Week werden wir bestimmt davon noch hören, also eine gute Gelegenheit, die Debatte am IBI aufzugreifen

The Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is seeking proposals for an Undergraduate, Master’s, and Recently Graduated Students (having graduated May 2011 or later) research program at the ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting in Montreal on November 3 – 6, 2013.

This session is intended to provide students with an opportunity to present their work during the main conference on areas of interest relevant to information and knowledge management. The session will also serve as a social meeting point to facilitate networking between students, faculty, and professionals. Note: students do not have to attend the conference in order to qualify. To accommodate students who cannot attend the conference, we are accepting pre-made video presentations and mailed-in posters. All abstracts, presentation media, and posters will be published on the SIG DL website after the conference.

Submission Deadline is September 16, 2013. Read the full CFP.
Vielleicht schafft der eine oder andere die Deadline noch!

The Guardian provides a look at 10 academic libraries: University library chiefs worldwide reveal the challenges they face, plans for the future, and their role in higher education.

Australia: Queensland University of Technology Library
Brazil: Unicamp Library System
Canada: Harris Learning Library, Nipissing University
Italy: European University Institute Library
Japan: Hachioji library, Tama Art University Library
Nigeria: American University of Nigeria Library
Singapore: Nanyang Technological University Library
UK: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
UK: University of Manchester Library
US: New York University Library

All 10 Articles Available Here:
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/aug/07/university-libraries-10-global-portraits

Die Royal School of Library and Information Science in Kopenhagen schreibt derzeit zwei PhD-Positionen für Kulturelle Kommunikation und für Informationswissenschaft aus. Alle Infos dazu gibts unter: http://iva.ku.dk/english/about/positions/ ganz unten.

Folgender Call for Papers erreichte uns:

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“Call for Papers

Workshop to be held in connection with TPDL 2013, September 26th, 2013, Valletta, Malta

Moving beyond technology: iSchools and education in data curation.
Is Data Curator a new role ?
Workshop background
The increase of digital content in the broad areas of Institutional and domain specific Repositories, Libraries, Archives and Museums and the increased interest in the sharing and preservation of “research data” have triggered the emergence of some buzz words that more and more appear in the literature, such as Convergence (in this context the merging of the education curricula and the professions for information professionals in the disciplines of Library Science, Archival, and Museum Studies), Digital Curation (in this context the actions needed to enrich and maintain digital material over its entire life-cycle and over time, for current and future generations of users) and Data Curator (in this context the person/organization responsible for all the activities connected with the management/curation of digital data, in particular of research data).

Workshop objectives
The main objective of the workshop is to provide additional insight in the complex interplay between education, research and curation (including long term preservation) of digital data. In more practical terms, it is expected to contribute to a more precise definition of the content of the curricula needed for the education and training of the information professionals, gain a better understanding of the level at which a convergence of the three traditional professions could be achieved, contribute to a more global view of the access and preservation of research outcomes (for present and future sharing), which today are very often scattered in libraries, archives, institutional repositories, data bases, etc.

The full-day workshop (on September 26th) will be held in connection with the TPDL 2013 Conference (Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries), to be held on September 22-26, 2013 in Valletta, Malta. Expected contributors and participants in the conference and in this workshop are educators, information professionals involved in the storage and preservation of research data, scholars from different disciplines interested in understanding and achieving the preservation of their research data. The workshop intends to provide an opportunity for discussing and sharing experiences both in research and education, especially in the context of curation of research data. A satellite event at TPDL(G-WiS: Global Collaboration of iSchools) can provide additional opportunities for contributions and participation from scholars and educators in iSchools, traditionally in the forefront for innovative curricula and adaptation to a changing environment in education, research and professional activities. A more detailed description of the workshop can be found at the TPDL web site.

Call for contributions
We invite contributions and concrete examples of research projects, educational programmes and training initiatives in digital curation and research data management, illustrating approaches, methodologies and success stories addressing the need for an increasingly qualified “information workforce” in the data library, data centre, archive, museum and cultural heritage sectors. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Who is the Digital Curator ?
Education of researchers and curators for the present and the future
Core skills for the data scientist
Training programmes and modules
How are data curation skills embedded in curricula ?
Data science curricula: building human capacity
Lifelong learning in digital curation
Existing opportunities for information professionals
Sustainability of digital curation curricula
Multimodal methods of teaching and learning digital curation
Capitalizing on the value of open data
Data publication and its role in scholarly communication
Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
Tensions between maintaining openness and ownership
Workflows in the data life-cycle
Effective management, sharing and reuse of data
Mobile data services to enhance teaching, learning and research
Implementation of cultural changes: barriers and enablers
How curators are deployed in practice?
What are the new research and development results in data curation?
Curation of disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and/or mixed data collections
Convergence for the next generation of data preservation and curation

Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research or position papers related to the topics mentioned above or, more generally, to the objectives of the workshop. All submissions are required to be in PDF, not exceeding 10 pages formatted according to Springer’s LNCS format.
Please submit your contribution using the EasyChair online submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datacur2013

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. All papers accepted must be presented by a workshop registered participant.
Depending on the quality and number of papers submitted, the organizers will evaluate the possibility of publishing the workshop proceedings.

Important dates
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013
Acceptance Notification: July 28, 2013
Final version submission: August 25, 2013
Workshop: September 26, 2013

Organizing and Meta-Program Committee
Vittore Casarosa (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Donatella Castelli (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Seamus Ross (University of Toronto)
Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma)

Program Committee
Kevin Ashley (Digital Curation Centre, UK)
Christoph Becker (University of Toronto)
Toni Carbo (Drexel University, USA)
Paul Conway (University of Michigan)
Kate Fernie (MDR Partners, UK))
Mariella Guercio (University of Roma La Sapienza)
Carolyn Hank (University of Tennessee)
Cal Lee (University of North Carolina)
Jens Ludwig (Göttingen State and University Library)
John McDonald (University of Toronto)
Nancy McGovern (MIT)
Andy Rauber (Technical University of Vienna)
Michael Seadle (Humboldt University, Berlin))
Stefan Strathmann (Göttingen State and University Library)
Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne)
Terry Weech (University of Illinois)”

The 2013 Open Data Day Hackathon is coming February 23rd.
The last year has seen open data continue to gain traction around the world with new open data catalogs launched in Europe, North America and Africa and more data than ever available from organizations like the World Bank. Let’s see what interesting things we can do with it.

What is this?

It’s a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

Who is this event for?

Everyone / Developers / Designers / Statisticians / Citizens … Librarians!

I heard you folks like books and eat catalogs of data for breakfast. You beautiful people are going to scour the earth for interesting data, help the rest of us figure out what’s important, and generally be useful.

Wann & wo?
Samstag, 23.02.2013, 13–21h
In den Räumen der Zeit ONLINE (Nähe Anhalter Bahnhof)

Mehr Infos & Anmeldung
Bei Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland

The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, is pleased to announce that a PhD scholarship will be available from December 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Alles Weitere: Ausschreibung

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Lee Dirks, Director for Portfolio Strategy at Microsoft Research Connections, and a terrific iSchools Organization friend and advocate.

Lee’s work at Microsoft allowed him to work closely with academic and research organizations to help solve some of the world’s most challenging scientific and social problems via collaborative research projects. He was a frequent iConference participant, presenter and sponsor, and very well known to all Conference attendees. His support for the work we do at our Information schools was invaluable, and his presence will be a great loss for all who knew and worked with him.

Lee and his wife were tragically killed in an automobile accident while on vacation in Peru. They leave behind two young daughters.

Die Bibliothek der Universität Luxemburg sucht derzeit für zwei unbefristete Stellen zwei Diplombibliothekare mit ausgeprägter Serviceorientierung und Kommunikationsfähigkeit. Beide Stellen sind auf 40h/Woche ausgelegt. Für beide Stellen sind sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse Voraussetzung, Französisch- und Luxemburgischkenntnisse sind von Vorteil.

Die genauen Stellenbeschreibungen und Anforderungsprofile entnehmen Sie bitte den Stellenausschreibungen:

Diplombibliothekar(in)

Diplombibliothekar(in) mit Verantwortung für die Entwicklung der Erwerbungspolitik