[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)
I've been reading this discussion with increasing dismay. At first, I was encouraged by the collegiality, but now I think we are grasping for civility and understanding. As I read the emails on this set of topics, I'm compelled to provide another concrete example - as Karen and Deborah have tried to accomplish quite valliantly. I'd like for everyone to consider the concept of microaggression: “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults toward people based on race, gender and/or ability." Wikipedia provides a good introduction for those of you who have never heard of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression I'm hoping that everyone will take a moment to think about whether or not you agree with me that some of the current discussion on CODE4LIB fits this definition. And what that means for us as a community and then to consider how we move forward. My plea is the same as Karen's Listen. Ask questions if you don't understand. And have respect for the experiences of others. -- Kathryn La Barre President ISKO C/US Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Kathryn La Barre President ISKO C/US Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[CODE4LIB] PHD and MSLIS Research assistantships available at GSLIS/ University of Illinois
The Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) research group (soda.lis.illinois.edu) at the iSchool at Illinois (www.lis.illinois.edu) conducts research on how to design, develop, and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the dynamic interplay between information, people and technology. The group has recently introduced a new SODA specialization and is actively recruiting outstanding MS and PhD students in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis, text and data mining, knowledge discovery and informetrics. The application process is competitive and research assistantships will be assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission to the MS or PhD programs. Successful PhD applicants will receive up to 4 years of funding, including tuition waivers, stipends and benefits. Successful MS applicants will receive 1 year of funding including tuition waivers, stipends and benefits. Funded research assistantships provide students with increased opportunities to work closely with the following faculty: • Catherine Blake (text mining, discovery and health informatics, summarization), • Jana Diesner (NLP, machine learning, network analysis, covert information), • Miles Efron (information retrieval, language technologies, temporal information), • Vetle Torvik (informetrics, data mining, literature-based discovery, name disambiguation). The Graduate School of Library and information Science supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, data curation, and information organization. More information about available fellowships can be found at soda.lis.illinois.edu and questions can be directed to sodai...@illinois.edu. General Admissions questions can be directed to lisap...@illinois.edu. Students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Rolling deadlines are available for the MS program and the deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2012. Dr. Catherine Blake http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~clblake/ -- Kathryn La Barre President ISKO C/US Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[CODE4LIB] Recruiting PhD Candidates for the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3) at the University of Illinois are actively recruiting outstanding doctoral candidates interested in research assistantships with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) to develop the HTRC infrastructure, create mechanisms for outreach and engagement with scholarly communities, and cross-pollinate ideas among HTRC stakeholders . The HTRC is the research arm of the HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org). The HTRC represents a unique collaboration between the University of Illinois and Indiana University. The center conducts research addressing the technical challenges associated with the analysis of massive amounts of digitized text. HTRC faculty and students develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The Office of the Provost of the University of Illinois has generously provided support for two doctoral students with up to 4 years of funding, including tuition waivers, stipends, and benefits. Successful candidates will work closely with leading faculty in a cooperative and highly interdisciplinary environment. We are particularly interested in students with research interests in: information organization and access, cultural informatics, digital humanities, data curation, data modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and socio-technical data analytics. The Graduate School of Library and information Science supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth services, user services and outreach, information history and policy, social and community informatics, and information organization. For more information about the GSLIS PhD program, please visit: http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd or contact program staff directly at . Research and education in the Informatics PhD program has a strong interdisciplinary flavor involving experts in information and computation foundations together with experts in a wide range of application areas. It supports interdisciplinary research and promotes the creation of new fields of research enabled by the development and application of new technologies. For more information about the Illinois Informatics PhD program, please visit: https://rhino.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/infophd/Home or contact program staff directly at . For more information about the HathiTrust Research Center, please visit: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc or contact J. Stephen Downie, Co-Director of HTRC, at . The application process is competitive. Research assistantships will be assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission to the PhD program. Students from historically and statistically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications to both programs is December 15, 2012 for Fall 2013 enrollment. -- Kathryn La Barre President ISKO C/US Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[CODE4LIB] CALL FOR PAPERS: LIBRARY TRENDS, Special Issue on Trends in Next Generation Discovery and Access
CALL FOR PAPERS: LIBRARY TRENDS, International Journal of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science Special Issue on Trends in Next Generation Discovery and Access The library catalog, along with other traditional information retrieval tools, is in a state of flux. Contributing factors include changing codes, changing priorities, and changing expectations. In the past four years, many institutions have implemented radically new approaches to the traditional library catalog. Whether we call these Third Generation Catalogs, Next Generation Catalogs, or Next Next Generation Catalogs, these are most often characterized by the introduction of faceted search capabilities and reliance on social technologies like tagging that encourage user interaction and participation. This period marks a new phase of experimentation that has not been seen since the late 1970s and early 1980s when the OPAC burst upon the scene. Since the unveiling of the new catalog at North Carolina State University in 2006, impassioned exchanges have occurred throughout the grey literature of our field today, from blog posts to the NGC4LIB listserv. To provide a more permanent record of the ideas driving these exchanges, the international journal Library Trends is planning a special issue, Trends in Next Generation Discovery and Access. This issue of Library Trends aims to investigate the historical background of the developments and innovations in the catalog, and to support articulation work that describes both the theory and practices that underlie Next Generation Discovery and Access. Some of these instantiations are traditional catalogs with new window dressing, but many institutions are rethinking fundamental technologies and practices. It is these experiments that will be highlighted by this issue. Proposals for articles may address a specific implementation or types of implementations; these articles may be written in a brief case study format. In addition, as benefits the aims of the journal, authors are encouraged to write more extended articles that interpret, contextualize and describe a relevant topic. Contributions on the history, theory and philosophy of developments in library catalogs are welcome. Proposals of no more than 300 words to be sent by 30 December 2010 to: Dr. Kathryn La Barre (klaba...@illinois.edu) Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Decisions will be communicated to contributors no later than 15 January 2011. Delivery date of manuscripts: December 1, 2011. Each article will be in the range of 5,000-8,000 words (Case studies may be more brief). Articles will be published in Volume 60:4 (Spring 2012). -- Kathryn La Barre Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
