ACLS Fellows in the News. Michael F. Suarez F'03, an authority on the history of books, will discuss “Old Books, Digital Books and the Future of Libraries,” in the 2012 Peple Lecture Feb. 26, 2 p.m., at the University of Richmond. Suarez is university professor and director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is author of “The Oxford Companion to the Book,” a million-word reference about the history of books and manuscripts since the invention of writing.
(Source: news.richmond.edu)
Job Opportunity / Postdoc: Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. It seeks to: 1) foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future; 2) expand leadership capacity in the information professions; and 3) analyze changes in the information landscape and help practitioners prepare for them.
CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address both the current crisis in academic publishing and the opportunities presented by digital technology, particularly the emergence of portable electronic reading/writing devices. The publishing platform is fully digital, with titles published on the Web and as apps on portable devices.
Download position description: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact CLIR directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, Newberry Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The Newberry Library, open to the public without charge, is an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities. The Newberry acquires and preserves a broad array of special collections research materials relating to the civilizations of Europe and the Americas. It promotes and provides for their effective use, fostering research, teaching, publication, and life-long learning, as well as civic engagement. In service to its diverse community, the Newberry encourages intellectual pursuit in an atmosphere of free inquiry and sustains the highest standards of collection preservation, bibliographic access, and reader services.
The Newberry is in the midst of multiple ongoing, technology-based activities, including developing a digital asset management system, determining how to manage and preserve born-digital assets, producing digital publications and online exhibitions for scholarly and general audiences, and more. The responsibilities of this position will involve engagement with all of these developments, and with the Newberry’s scholarly and public mission, collections, and multiple audiences.
Download position description: Newberry Library – Assistant Director, Digital Initiatives and Services
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the Newberry directly.
Postdoc / Job Opportunity: Special Projects Coordinator, New York Public Library
This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.
ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is the most heavily used library system in the United States with over 27 million items borrowed and 45,000 programs offered last year alone. From programs in the digital humanities to classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages, NYPL serves a diverse constituency of users. The Library’s neighborhood community libraries and research centers provide free and democratic access to their resources, services, programming, and exhibitions to more than 18 million people each year. Research and circulating collections combined contain more than 65 million items; and the Library’s website, www.nypl.org, receives over 31 million visits annually from around the world.
Download position description: New York Public Library – Special Projects Coordinator
Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact the NYPL directly.
Inside Higher Ed on Anvil Publishing, an ACLS Public Fellows partner org
A 2012 ACLS Public Fellow will be appointed to Anvil Academic Publishing. Full position description. Apply at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows by March 21.
Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship
Academics who specialize in using technology to conduct and enable new kinds of humanities research are in high demand. At the same time, the current ecosystem of scholarly publishing can be inhospitable to their often-idiosyncratic research projects.
Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets.
The platform, called Anvil Academic, is a joint project by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Anvil aims to make it easier for digital humanists to publish nontraditional scholarly work under the auspices of traditional outlets, such as university presses.
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