Faculty Positions (Assistant/Associate Professors) SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University's Information Science School at Bloomington (SLIS) invites applications for two Assistant/Associate Professor positions. All areas of specialization, from digital libraries to organizational informatics, that are pertinent to the school's academic programs will be considered. The successful candidates will complement the school's developing research agenda in the social and cognitive analyses of interaction between people, organizations, technologies and information, particularly in relation to the development of the Internet and World Wide Web. We seek truly outstanding individuals with strong research and teaching records. In both its research and teaching, SLIS is committed to exploring the cognitive, contextual and social processes that characterize information behavior at individual, organizational and societal levels. The school maintains good working relations with colleagues in other academic units such as Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Journalism, Education, and Law through joint and adjunct faculty appointments as well as through interaction with Fellows in the Center for Social Informatics. The school is also an active player in IU's Digital Library Program (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu) and the university's new, multidisciplinary School of Informatics (http://informatics.indiana.edu/). Information about SLIS's faculty, degree programs and research activities, including the Center for Social Informatics (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI) and the Usability Laboratory, can be found at http://www.slis.indiana.edu/ SLIS has an interdisciplinary faculty whose backgrounds include information science, computer science, psychology, linguistics, library science, sociology, and political science. Its faculty was recently ranked #1 in North America for its scholarly productivity and impact. The school continues as one of the top-ranked programs of its kind in the nation and offers a Master's of Information Science (MIS) degree and a Ph.D in Information Science, plus the MLS. Indiana University is a major public university with about 1500 faculty and 35,000 students on the Bloomington campus. The campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. Indiana University has also been rated as one of the best networked universities in the U.S. Nestled in the hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is within a day's drive of more than half of the U.S. population. It is a half of a day's drive or less to locations in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. Bloomington is situated in beautiful forested rolling hills and farmland and is about one hour south of Indianapolis (and its airport). The Bloomington campus of Indiana University has been described as "one the five most beautiful in the nation." Its limestone buildings are situated on a wooded, beautifully landscaped campus that includes a meandering stream and an arboretum.Bloomington also has a lively performing arts scene with well over a thousand concerts on and off campus each year. Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, offering a full range of benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Salary is competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. To apply, submit a letter of application which explains some of the ways that you can help to strengthen SLIS's programs, references (three for an assistant and six for an associate professor appointment) and curriculum vitae. Informal inquiries are encouraged, and can be made to the co-chairs of the search committee (see below), to whom applications, nominations and curricula vitae should be sent. Debora Shaw, Ph.D, Associate Dean Rob Kling, Ph.D, Professor of Information Science & Information Systems School of Library and Information Science Main Library 011D 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 3907 phone: (812) 855-3261; fax: (812) 855-6166; E-mail: shawd@indiana.edu Applications will be reviewed as received. Starting dates open. --- Rob Kling http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling The Information Society (journal) http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS Center for Social Informatics http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI SLIS - IU's Information Science School Indiana University 10th & Jordan, LI Room 005C Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 812-855-9763 // Fax: 855-6166 Read & contribute to the .... Social Informatics Home Page --> http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI a resource about research, teaching, conferences & journals