[Web4lib] LucasFilm Database Administrator Job Posting
Walton, Sean Paul
spwalton2 at bsu.edu
Thu Jan 8 12:53:11 EST 2009
http://www.lisjobs.com/jobseekers/details.asp?ID=40262
Sean P. Walton, MLS Voice 765-285-3326
Emerging Technologies Librarian FAX 765-285-2644
University Libraries Email spwalto2 at bsu.edu
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
The University Libraries provide services that support student pursuits
for academic success and faculty endeavors for knowledge creation
and classroom instruction. www.bsu.edu/library
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Today's Topics:
1. Academic Rank of Authors Publishing in Open Access Journals
(McKiernan, Gerard [LIB])
2. MESUR For Measure: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources
(McKiernan, Gerard [LIB])
3. Image Database Administrator position (Shauna Borger)
4. Two more items on the Google Books settlement... (B.G. Sloan)
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:38:14 -0600
From: "McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]" <gerrymck at iastate.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] Academic Rank of Authors Publishing in Open Access
Journals
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Colleagues/
A Most Interesting Article ...
/Gerry
Nowick, Elaine A. 2008. "Academic Rank of Authors Publishing in Open
Access Journals." Agricultural Information Worldwide, v. 1, no. 2, pp.
45-51.
When deciding where to publish their research results, faculty take into
consideration factors such as the prestige and readership of journals.
The weight a journal article will carry is particularly a concern for
pre-tenured faculty members. Previous research has indicated that some
faculty members may have some concerns about publishing in Open Access
journals because of a perceived lack of rigor and reputation of Open
Access titles. In this study, the academic rank of authors publishing in
Open Access and commercial scholarly journals was compared. Most authors
in both Open Access and for-fee journals were full professors. There was
no indication that pre-tenured faculty avoided Open Access titles. In
fact, there was a
List Of References and Links Available At
[ http://tinyurl.com/6txzyq ]
Regards,
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck at iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck at iastate.edu>
There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor
Hugo
[ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490
<http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490> ]
Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows
[ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/
<http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/> ]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:27:46 -0600
From: "McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]" <gerrymck at iastate.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] MESUR For Measure: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of
Resources
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Colleagues/
Among the projects featured in a previous blog posting in my Scholarship
2.0 blog was the MESUR project. Recently I blogged a full profile of
MESUR that includes a project description:
"The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the
assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of
scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has
created a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an
associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of
bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety of
sources.
After mapping the structure of the scholarly community on the basis of
the established reference data set, MESUR will conduct an investigation
into the definition and validation of a range of usage-based metrics.
The defined metrics will be cross-validated, resulting in the
formulation of guidelines and recommendations.
MESUR Database
The MESUR data base now contains 1B usage events (2002-2007) obtained
from 6 significant publishers, 4 large institutional consortia and 4
significant aggregators! The collected usage data spans more than
100,000 serials (including newspapers, magazines, etc.) and is related
to journal citation data that spans about 10,000 journals and nearly 10
years (1996-2006). In addition we have obtained significant
publisher-provided COUNTER usage reports that span nearly 2000
institutions worldwide."
[more]
as well as links to Quick Facts, Documentation, and Publications, and
the original blog posting about MESUR and two other initiatives [Final
Impact: What Factors Really Matter?] ('Related')
The full description as well as links to the aforementioned resources
are available at
[ http://tinyurl.com/a3v7q3 ]
Enjoy!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck at iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck at iastate.edu>
There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor
Hugo
[ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490
<http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490> ]
Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows
[ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/
<http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/> ]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:56:08 -0600
From: "Shauna Borger" <shauna.borger at gmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Image Database Administrator position
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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Hi Everyone,
Has anyone seen a job posting for an Image Database Administrator for
Lucasfilms in San Francisco on this listserv? I saw the announcement on one
of the _4Lib listservs and now I can't find it. It would help me
tremendously if someone could find it and let me know the date it was sent
out (and possibly a copy?). You can contact me directly at :
shauna_borger at hotmail.com
Thanks everyone!
Sincerely,
Shauna Borger
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:26:19 -0600
> From: Alexander B Sonsteby <sonsteby at cord.edu>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Deadline Extended: Applications Sought for
> Instruction Section (IS) List Administrator
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> DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications Sought for Instruction Section (IS) List
> Administrator
>
> The Instruction Section of ACRL is now accepting applications for the
> Instruction Section (IS) List Administrator position. The IS List
> Administrator serves a two-year term and is responsible for maintaining the
> Section's closed committee discussion lists, under the general direction of
> the IS Executive Committee. The List Administrator hosts these lists at his
> or her home institution. The IS lists are crucial to maintaining
> communication within the Advisory Council, the Executive Committee, and
> other IS committees and task forces.
>
> The List Administrator has an appointment as a virtual member of the
> Communication Committee and, as such, participates in the work of the
> committee throughout the year but is not is required to attend committee
> meetings at the ALA Annual and Midwinter conferences. This appointment will
> begin immediately after the ALA Annual Conference in July of 2009.
>
> Responsibilities:
> * Creating lists with closed memberships for the IS Executive Committee and
> IS Advisory Council, as well as additional closed lists for Instruction
> Section committees and task forces.
> * Maintaining membership of Section lists and acting as list owner for
> settings and other changes.
> * Updating the document, "Tips for the IS Committee List Administrator," as
> needed.
>
> Qualifications:
> * Membership in the ACRL Instruction Section.
> * Ability to meet deadlines and to communicate effectively through email.
> * Commitment to respond quickly to the Section's needs.
> * Institutional computer resources for maintaining the Section's closed
> lists.
> * Experience with mailing list software or list ownership, or demonstrated
> ability to learn.
> * Knowledge of mailing list software settings and etiquette, or
> demonstrated ability to learn.
>
> Appointment and term:
> The IS Committee List Administrator is a volunteer who serves a two-year
> term, upon selection by the Executive Committee and appointment by the
> Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. This appointment begins immediately after the ALA
> Annual Conference in July 2009.
>
> Application process:
> Please submit a curriculum vitae or resume and cover letter to Alec
> Sonsteby, chair, IS Communication Committee, at sonsteby at cord.edu. The
> letter of interest should outline experience and knowledge applicable to the
> position. Any samples of relevant work will also be accepted. The
> application deadline is Friday, January 16, 2009.
>
>
> http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/iscommittees/committeelist.cfm
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:53:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Lori Bell <lbell927 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Audio Description of digital image workshops
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> Alliance Library System is pleased to announce Audio Description of Digital
> Images workshops throughout Illinois this spring conducted by Tom Peters of
> TAP Information Services.
> What is Audio Description? Audio Description (AD) is a narrative technique
> that makes visual images more accessible to blind and low-vision people by
> producing audible written descriptions of non-verbal visual information,
> such as digital photographs, television programs, motion pictures, and live
> events. This series of workshops will focus on uses of audio description by
> libraries with digital image collections, image-intensive websites, etc.
> Who Should Attend? Everyone is welcome to attend, especially
> representatives from organizations that have received (or are considering
> apply for) digital imaging grants from the Illinois State Library.
> Note: This is a Working Workshop! We will be creating and recording real
> audio descriptions during this workshop. You may take the audio description
> you create back to your library and integrate it into your library website,
> collection of digital images, etc.
> Please bring a photograph (the original -- only if it is safe and secure to
> do so -- or a copy, or a digital image) for which you want to have an audio
> description created that you can use.
> Schedule of In-Person and Online Workshops :
>
> Joliet:: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Black Road
> Branch of the Joliet Public Library, 3395 Black Road
> Online via OPAL: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the
> OPAL Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org)
> East Peoria : Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Alliance
> Library System offices, 600 High Point Lane
> Springfield: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln
> Library, the Public Library of Springfield, 326 South 7 th Street
> Champaign : Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central at the Lincoln
> Trail Libraries System offices, 1704 West Interstate Drive
> Chicago: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 from 9:30 to 12:30 Central at the Chicago
> office of the Metropolitan Library System, 224 S. Michigan Ave.
> Online via OPAL: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:00 to 4:00 Central in the OPAL
> Online Auditorium (www.opal-online.org)
> Registration is Free, Online, and Easy: http://tinyurl.com/3cfvc2
> Workshop Handouts: Click here to get the latest handout for the above
> mentioned Audio Description Workshops. This 7 page MS Word document is the
> most current copy.
> Project website: http://www.alsaudioillinois.net/
> For more information: Contact Tom Peters, Project Coordinator,
> tpeters at tapinformation.com,
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:18:32 -0500
> From: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson at niso.org>
> Subject: [Web4lib] NISO Webinar on January 14: Digital Preservation:
> Current Efforts
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> NISO's 2009 webinar series will kick-off on January 14 (1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
> Eastern Time) with "Digital Preservation: Current Efforts". Preservation
> of digital content is an ongoing and iterative process. The actions we
> take now could have profound implications for the availability of
> digital content for future generations. This webinar will show three
> projects -- an international, a national, and a local preservation
> initiative -- that will highlight for attendees some of the
> opportunities and challenges particular to digital content preservation.
>
> Speakers and topics are:
>
> Introduction by Mary Alice Baish, Director, Government Relations Office,
> American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
>
> Digital Preservation: The Stanford Digital Repository by Keith Johnson,
> Stanford Digital Repository Preservation Architect
>
> CLOCKSS, A Global Archive: Libraries and Publishers Preserving the Past
> for the Future by Victoria Reich, CLOCKSS Board member and Director,
> LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries
>
> Going from Zero to Live with an Automated Digital Preservation System:
> Planning, Process and Results Based on the New Zealand Experience by
> Carl Grant, President, Ex Libris North America
>
> A Q&A period will conclude the webinar.
>
> Visit the event webpage (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/digpres09)
> for more information and to register. NISO member rate is $79. NASIG
> members may register at the NISO rate. Non-member rate is $99 and
> students may register at $39. International rates (outside US and
> Canada) include a call-in number.
>
> ExLibris is generously sponsoring this webinar.
>
> The complete 2009 schedule of NISO in-person education events and
> webinars is listed on the NISO website at:
> http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/.
>
> Included in 2009 is a regular monthly webinar to be held on the second
> Wednesday of each month. Attendees can register for individual sessions
> or can purchase a subscription package for the webinar series. Those who
> have plans to participate in multiple webinars have the benefit of
> pre-paying for three and receiving admission to a fourth at no charge.
> Registration for the entire 2009 webinar schedule enables the
> participant to receive 50% off the registration price for the entire
> scheduled series of 12. Visit http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ to
> subscribe to a webinar series.
>
> [This message has been cross-posted.]
>
> Cynthia Hodgson
> NISO Technical Editor Consultant
> National Information Standards Organization
> Email: chodgson at niso.org <mailto:chodgson at niso.org>
> Phone: 301-654-2512
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>
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> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:31:38 -0600
> From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Version 74, Scholarly Electronic Publishing
> Bibliography
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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> Version 74 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
> Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship.
> This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles,
> books, and other printed and electronic sources that are
> useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing
> efforts on the Internet. Where possible, links are provided
> to works that are freely available on the Internet,
> including e-prints in disciplinary archives and
> institutional repositories.
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
>
> For a discussion of the numerous changes in my digital
> publications since my resignation from the University of
> Houston Libraries (http://tinyurl.com/5en4jt), see:
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/dsoverview.htm
>
> Changes in This Version
>
> The bibliography has the following sections (revised
> sections are marked with an asterisk):
>
> Table of Contents
>
> 1 Economic Issues*
> 2 Electronic Books and Texts
> 2.1 Case Studies and History*
> 2.2 General Works*
> 2.3 Library Issues*
> 3 Electronic Serials
> 3.1 Case Studies and History*
> 3.2 Critiques
> 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
> 3.4 General Works*
> 3.5 Library Issues*
> 3.6 Research*
> 4 General Works*
> 5 Legal Issues
> 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
> 5.2 License Agreements*
> 6 Library Issues
> 6.1 Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
> 6.2 Digital Libraries*
> 6.3 General Works*
> 6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation*
> 7 New Publishing Models*
> 8 Publisher Issues*
> 8.1 Digital Rights Management*
> 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
> Appendix A. Related Bibliographies*
> Appendix B. About the Author*
> Appendix C. SEPB Use Statistics
>
> Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources includes
> the following sections:
>
> Cataloging, Identifiers, Linking, and Metadata*
> Digital Libraries*
> Electronic Books and Texts*
> Electronic Serials*
> General Electronic Publishing*
> Images
> Legal*
> Preservation*
> Publishers
> Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI*
> SGML and Related Standards
>
> Further Information about SEPB
>
> The XHTML version of SEPB is designed for interactive use.
> Each major section is a separate file. There are links
> to sources that are freely available on the Internet.
> It can be searched using a Google Search Engine. Whether
> the search results are current depends on Google's
> indexing frequency.
>
> In addition to the bibliography, the XHTML document
> includes:
>
> (1) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (monthly list of
> new resources; also available by e-mail--see second
> URL--and RSS Feed--see third URL)
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm
> http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=51756
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss
>
> (2) Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory
> of over 330 related Web sites)
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepr/sepr.htm
>
> (3) Archive (prior versions of the bibliography)
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/archive/sepa.htm
>
> Annual PDF Editions
>
> The 2006 and 2007 annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic
> Publishing Bibliography (PDF files designed for printing)
> are also available.
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm
>
> Related Article
>
> An article about the bibliography has been published
> in The Journal of Electronic Publishing:
>
> http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.201
>
> Other Digital Scholarship Publications
>
> The following Digital Scholarship publications may also be
> of interest:
>
> (1) Author's Rights, Tout de Suite
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/authorrights.pdf
>
> (2) DigitalKoans (Weblog about digital copyright, digital
> curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly
> communication, and other digital information issues)
>
> http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/
> RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalKoans
>
> (3) Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
>
> http://digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm
>
> (4) Google Book Search Bibliography
>
> http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
>
> (5) Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf
>
> (6) Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly
> Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
>
> http://digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm
>
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> Charles
>
> Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
> Publisher, Digital Scholarship
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/
>
> A Look Back at Nineteen Years as an Internet Digital
> Publisher
>
> http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/nineteenyears.htm
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:41:42 -0800 (PST)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Two more items on the Google Books settlement...
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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Two op-ed pieces from the January issue of Library Journal deal with Google's recent settlement with publishers and authors:
Wilkin, John. HathiTrust and the Google Deal.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6624782.html
Johnson, Richard K. Free (or Fee) to All?
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6624784.html
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington,IN
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