Faculty Position in Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing
Faculty Position in the Department of Information and Library Science School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington Indiana University The School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a position beginning in Fall 2015 in the Department of Information and Library Science (all subareas). This position is open at all levels (assistant, associate, or full professor). Applications from senior leaders are especially encouraged. The Department of Information and Library Science (ILS), formerly the School of Library and Information Science, has a long, successful history, having graduated over 8,000 students since it opened its doors in 1946. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Bloomington Information and Library Science program eighth nationally http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-... The School of Informatics and Computing is the first of its kind and among the largest in the country, with unsurpassed breadth. Its mission is to excel and lead in education, research, and outreach spanning and integrating computing and information technologies. In addition to ILS, the School includes the Department of Computer Science and Informatics and has a total of over 85 faculty, 900 graduate students, and 1,100 undergraduate majors on the Bloomington campus. Faculty research areas include bibliometrics; big data; computer-mediated communication; data science; digital libraries; information organization, retrieval, and visualization; science studies; semantic web, social informatics; text mining; web science; and more. Graduate degrees offered in the School include Master’s degrees in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, Information Science, Library Science, and Security Informatics, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Informatics, and Information Science. The School is also known for its strong undergraduate programs. Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with over 2,000 faculty and over 45,000 students. The beautiful campus hosts 110 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished academic departments and schools. IU is renowned for its high-performance computing and networking facilities, top-ranked music school, and performing and fine arts. Located in the wooded rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is a culturally thriving college town with a moderate cost of living and the amenities for an active lifestyle. Basic qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant area (or for junior level, expected before August 2015) and an established record (senior level) or demonstrable potential for excellence in research and teaching (junior level). Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching, and names of three references (junior level), or six references (senior level) using the University’s online system below (preferred): http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/971 or to Faculty Search, SoIC, 919 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408. For full consideration, completed applications must be received by December 15, 2014. Informal and confidential inquiries may be sent to the ILS Chair, Pnina Fichman, (fichman@indiana.edu), or to any of the members of the search committee: Katy Börner (katy@indiana.edu), Susan Herring (herring@indiana.edu), Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenbau@indiana.edu). Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ———————————— Howard Rosenbaum Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Co-Director, Master of Information Science School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.soic.indiana.edu/about/directory/profile.html?profile_id=286 ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.ccma.csic.es/dpts/suelos/hidro/issi/home.html ----------------------------------------------------
CALL FOR PAPERS DOCAM2015 12th Annual International Meeting of the Document Academy To be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia Jointly hosted by UTS and Charles Sturt University (CSU) July 20-22, 2015 In 2015 the Document Academy will come together under the theme of “Documents Unbounded” and is calling for submissions that examine the challenges ahead, as our understanding of data, documents, records, artefacts, evidence and memory form in the continuously changing landscape of new media and communications. Important dates Extended abstracts by: 15 December 2014 Notification of acceptance by: 15 February 2015 Conference dates: 20-22 July 2015 Background DOCAM2015 is the 12th annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists, and professionals in various fields, who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic and professional work. The annual conference fosters a multidisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions, and experiences from the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and natural science, and from diverse fields, such as information, media, museum, archives, culture and science studies. Research presentations The DOCAM2015 Program Committee especially encourages completed research, research-in-progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: conference papers (extended abstracts for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion); brief abstracts for poster display and presentation. Proposal submissions Extended abstracts for conference papers and brief abstracts describing poster presentations should be submitted through the DOCAM2015 EasyChair system located at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=docam2015. The conference language is English. Follow the submission template. Papers For papers include: names and contact information for all contributors; title of paper; select the category type extended abstract; 3 to 5 keywords. Do not complete the abstract box available in the EasyChair template; instead upload your extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed presentation; All abstracts should be submitted in Word document format (.doc .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations do not appear on the submitted Word document. Posters For posters include: names and contact information for all contributors; title of poster presentation; an abstract or brief description of up to 250 words in the text box available in the template for abstracts; 3 to 5 keywords; Submissions for posters do not require upload of any Word documents. All proposals should also include a brief statement providing: - an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software, video, performance, or other forms of demonstration); - preferred size of poster presentation; - any special equipment needs. Publication of Conference proceedings Full conference papers of between 2,500 and 5,000 words will be published in an open access peer-reviewed volume, Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam More Information DOCAM2015 website: http://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/conferences-and- seminars/documents-unbounded DOCAM2015 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/docam2015 DOCAM2015 Twitter account: https://twitter.com/docam2015 Niels Windfeld Lund Professor emeritus, documentation studies, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway Visiting Scholar, The Danish National Archives home address: A.C. Hoppesvej 11 DK 7790 Thyholm Danmark mobil: +45 30747080
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Rosenbaum, Howard S.