Apologies for cross-posting! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Barbara S Lancho Barrantes <B.LanchoBarrantes@brighton.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM Subject: The LIS-Bibliometrics committee is recruiting a couple of new colleagues!! To: <LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS@jiscmail.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues I hope you are all doing well. The LIS Bibliometrics Committee is looking for two new colleagues to join us: a new Blog Manager and Deputy Blog Editor to look after our The Bibliomagician – Comment & practical guidance from the LIS-Bibliometrics community <https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/> and continue the excellent work of our colleagues Rachel Miles and Laura Bredahl all these years. The Bibliomagician blog is a highly regarded source used by practitioners, scholars, and others. You will have a key role in caring for this jewel! *Lis-Bibliometrics Committee Role Descriptions* *Blog Manager* The Blog Manager is committed to the following: - Ensure that the blog editors consist of one Blog Manager and up to 2 Deputy Blog Editors - Ensure that blog posts happen on a regular basis at approximately 1 post per month. - Ensure consistency in the entire blog posting process by leading the solicitation and management of posts with or through the Deputy Blog Editors. This includes: - identifying potential authors, - soliciting content, - editing, - signing of authorship agreement, - posting and - communications associated with the dissemination of the blog post. - Time commitment: Approximately 5-10 hours per month split between all blog editors. *Deputy Blog Editor* The Deputy Blog Editor is committed to the following: - Working with the Blog Manager to ensure that blog posts happen on a regular basis at approximately 1 post per month. - Working with the Blog Manager to ensure consistency in the entire blog posting process. This includes: - solicitation and management of posts - identifying potential authors, - soliciting content, - editing, - signing of authorship agreement, - posting and - communications associated with the dissemination of the blog post. Time commitment: Approximately 5-10 hours per month split between all blog editors. The Committee meets face-to-face once a year (usually at the annual conference) and virtually about three times a year, to move forward with the group's work. Committee terms are usually for two years, with the possibility of extension for a further term. If you are interested in joining, please could you reply to me by Monday 21 April with a short statement (max 300 words) saying why you’d like to join the group and what you could bring to that role. The committee: https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/about/meet-the-committee/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/about/meet-the-committee/__;!!IWcW7C1FDU-5!ZFebkse1eQPpFTgLAol38aNHbqs-u-QhFHgY-_J2iudQu1q39yD1hGlIbnrACqHyw8cXxiH6YK6k4tR9LOndk1I500seF-U8plAErgnulDkuDw$> We very much look forward to hearing from you! All the very best Barbara Chair LIS Bibliometrics committee https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/barbara-s-lancho-barrantes ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS&A=1 -- *Behrooz Rasuli* Ph.D. in LIS *Department of **Library & Information Science* *Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology <http://irandoc.ac.ir/irandoc-english/irandoc-english.html>* irandoc.ac.ir/u/b-rasuli *Skype: rasuli99*