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“Christina H. Gola Named UH [University of Houston] Libraries Dean”
Published: August 26, 2025 15:38
For the past year, Christina has served as Interim Dean. In this role, she’s built partnerships across campus, enhanced student spaces at MD Anderson Library, upgraded technology, and effectively managed personnel to meet UH Libraries’ most immediate…
Assistant Director Of Systemwide Licensing at California Digital Library
Published: August 26, 2025 15:36
Reporting to the CDL Director of Shared Collections, and in collaboration with the CDL Assistant Director for Open Access, the incumbent holds a leadership position within a team responsible for negotiating, implementing, and assessing business agreements…
“Exploring Workforce Factors in the Data Fields”
Published: August 26, 2025 15:34
As the data fields continue to grow and evolve, it is critical to examine factors that impact the workforce. This study explores various workforce development factors through a survey that asked data workers to describe their time spent on data-related…
“Evolving Funding Strategies for Research Software: Insights from an International Survey of Research Funders”
Published: August 26, 2025 15:32
This survey study of international research funders addresses the research questions: 1) How do international funders currently support research software? 2) What challenges are funders aiming to tackle with their research software programs? 3) How…
“Data Please!: Expanding the Role of Libraries in Data Science through Digital Scholarship”
Published: August 26, 2025 15:30
Objective: As data science becomes more integrated into research and teaching, libraries are well-positioned to support this work. This study examines how a digital scholarship team at Binghamton University enhanced engagement with data science by…
Resource Management & Discovery Librarian at Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Published: August 25, 2025 15:40
The Resource Management & Discovery Librarian. . . oversees the Collections Services unit of the University Library, including but not limited to the license, purchase, receipt, processing, and access of all print and electronic library materials.…
Paywall: “Big Data, Chatbots, and Data Mining: Transforming Academic Libraries – A Bibliometric Analysis”
Published: August 25, 2025 15:38
The findings reveal a substantial increase in research output, with China leading in publication volume, followed by the United States and other Asian countries. The study identifies the critical role of big data in enhancing operational efficiencies,…
Head of Systems Development at Old Dominion University
Published: August 25, 2025 15:36
The ODU Libraries Head of Systems Development is responsible for oversight and management of the key information systems that support Libraries’ functions and services. This position oversees the work of the Systems Administrator and the Brickell Library…
Paywall: “The Librarian Skillset and the Needs of Artificial Intelligence”
Published: August 25, 2025 15:34
In this paper, we provide mappings from ALA-defined librarian competencies and Library and Information Studies curricula to an inventory of AI competencies. We provide an analysis of five areas of alignment, as in correspondence, including responsible AI…
Library Systems Administrator at University of Virginia
Published: August 25, 2025 15:32
The University of Virginia Library seeks a Library Systems Administrator to lead and sustain the technical infrastructure supporting compliance with public access policies for federally funded research. This position will serve as the primary system…
“Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change”
Published: August 25, 2025 15:30
In nature, when an ecosystem is dying but still hanging on with a few residents, it’s often called moribund (Pal & Paul, 2020). The wicked problem of scholarly publishing traps authors in a system that exhibits similar characteristics—it’s in decline due…
Project Archivist for Architectural Records Digitization at University of Oklahoma (Term)
Published: August 23, 2025 03:40
Based on established criteria and priorities, the Project Archivist will make informed selections of archival collection items from fully processed collections to be digitized and published online, documenting these decisions in project spreadsheets.…
“Preserving At-Risk Public Data An Interview with the Data Rescue Project Steering Committee”
Published: August 22, 2025 15:38
The Data Rescue Project, a collaboration between SSIST, RDAP, and the Data Curation Network, is among the best organized and highest profile efforts to safeguard vital federal data. Since February, the Data Rescue Project and over 500 volunteers have…
Archivist for Metadata and Discovery at Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (Term)
Published: August 22, 2025 15:36
In partnership with the Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration, the Archivist for Digital Preservation, and the Libraries Digital Programs, the Archivist for Metadata and Discovery will collaborate on a five-year project to digitize the Neil A.…
“Keeping Up with… Research Information Management System ”
Published: August 22, 2025 15:34
Research information management systems (RIMS) support the transparent aggregation, curation, and use of data about institutional research activities. [1] In other words, RIMS can be used to create a dynamic registry of the institutional scholarly record.…
Special and Digital Collections, Department Head at University of Colorado Denver
Published: August 22, 2025 15:32
The Special and Digital Collections Department Head is responsible for the overseeing, managing, and outreach for Auraria Library’s Special and Digital Collections. Duties include, but are not limited to, designing programming that aligns with recognized…
“Hurdles to Open Access Publishing Faced by Authors: A Scoping Literature Review from 2004 to 2023”
Published: August 22, 2025 15:30
Over the past two decades, numerous widespread efforts and individual contributions to shift scientific publishing to open access (OA) have faced a number of obstacles. Due to the complexity of knowledge production dimension and knowledge dissemination,…
Electronic Resources Librarian at Seton Hall University
Published: August 21, 2025 15:40
Work collaboratively with Acquisitions Librarian and Cataloging Librarian to manage the full lifecycle of electronic resources: licensing, purchase, maintenance, access, authentication, renewal and cancelation workflows Manage and curate electronic…
Business and Data Services Librarian at University at Albany
Published: August 21, 2025 15:38
Serves as the primary subject librarian to the Massry School of Business and Economics Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, providing specialized research assistance, instruction, and outreach. Develops and delivers instructional sessions on…
Digital Preservation Specialist at Minnesota Historical Society
Published: August 21, 2025 15:36
This position supports the MNHS digital collections across the LRC Division by leading work to manage and maintain the materials for long-term access and use in alignment with the institution’s vision and strategic framework for sustainable digital…
“2025 Update: Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market”
Published: August 21, 2025 15:34
The 5 largest publishers are responsible for only 57% of total articles (4% less than seen without ESCI [the Emerging Sources Citation Index] and the equivalent to where things stood in 2020). The 10 largest and 20 largest publishers see similarly smaller…
“Geographical Diversity of Peer Reviewers Shapes Author Success”
Published: August 21, 2025 15:32
Peer review is central to allocating resources in science. However, if reviewers typically favor work from their own country (homophily) and most reviewers come from just a few countries, then authors from those countries enjoy a structural advantage that…
“Springer Nature Reports Strong Growth in the First Half of 2025 and Raises Full-Year Guidance”
Published: August 21, 2025 15:30
Research, the company’s largest segment, reported revenue of €731 million. The segment contributed most significantly to operating performance, with underlying[2] revenue growth of 7%. This was driven by the Journals portfolio and the continued momentum in…
Collections Digitization Librarian at Lafayette College
Published: August 20, 2025 15:36
The position sits in the Department of Digital Scholarship Services at Lafayette College Libraries. It manages digitization labs, including scanning and photography equipment within the libraries; oversees outsourcing and quality control of select…
Paywall: “AILIS 1.0: A New Framework to Measure AI Literacy in Library and Information Science (LIS)”
Published: August 20, 2025 15:34
Functioning, Ethics, and Evaluation emerged as core dimensions of AI literacy. Functioning scores correlated strongly with all other dimensions except self-assessed Usage. Overall, library professionals outperformed students, particularly in Ethics and…
“An Open Framework for Archival, Reproducible, and Transparent Science”
Published: August 20, 2025 15:32
Digital computational outputs are now ubiquitous in the research workflow and the way in which these data are stored and cataloged is becoming more standardized across fields. However, even with accessible data and code, the barrier to recreating figures…
“What Do Librarians Look Like? Stereotyping of a Profession by Generative AI”
Published: August 20, 2025 15:30
The analysis revealed significant biases in the generated images, with a predominant depiction of librarians as Caucasian. Gender representation overstated the presence of men in all libraries, most notably in academic libraries with only 6% of academic…