[Posted by request. Dick Hill]
2008-09 LIS Faculty Search
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The School of Information at the University of Michigan
seeks outstanding
faculty candidates whose research builds on existing
knowledge of
information access and use, and studies people and
information (e.g., people
as users of information, libraries, technology, information
behavior, human
information interaction), information tools and technologies
(e.g.,
information creation, organization, retrieval,
preservation), information
contexts (e.g., scholarly communication; digital libraries;
educational,
informational, and cultural institutions; community
informatics). Successful
candidates will teach in library and information science
(LIS) at the
master’s level, add to existing course offerings, and will
have the
opportunity to provide instruction and mentor students at
the doctoral
level. SI is consistently ranked among the top five LIS
programs. This
search is part of a multi-year focus on LIS faculty hiring.
The School of Information was created around a shared belief
that
information is fundamental in society, that advances in
information
technology make it even more important now than it was in
the past, and that
a more comprehensive approach to research and instruction is
needed to
address the challenges raised by the information revolution.
Faculty and
students are engaged in projects that focus on the dynamic
interplay among
information, technology, and people. SI faculty come from
diverse fields
such as library and information science, history, computer
science,
psychology, economics, physics, education, political
science, business, and
communication. MSI and Ph.D. students come from an even
wider variety of
fields. SI faculty provide instruction at the master's and
doctoral level,
engage in research in a multidisciplinary environment,
mentor and advise
graduate students, and provide service to the School, the
University, and
society. The School currently has 53 faculty; 45 doctoral
students, and 345
students in its Master of Science in Information program.
Detailed
information about the School, its mission, and its
activities can be found
at http://www.si.umich.edu.
Positions are for tenure track faculty at the ranks
Assistant/Associate/Full
Professor. All candidates for these positions should have a
Ph.D. in a
relevant field, research interests in LIS or IS, and be
committed to working
in an interdisciplinary environment.
Applicants should submit the following materials by Dec 5,
2007: a cover
letter, separate statements of research and teaching, a
curriculum vita, a
list of references, and three representative publications.
Send these
materials electronically (as eight separate files) to JoAnne
Kerr
(sifacultysearch gmail.com), Office of the Dean, School of
Information,
University of Michigan. The University of Michigan is an
equal
opportunity/affirmative action educator and employer.
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Soo Young Rieh
Assistant Professor
School of Information, University of Michigan
304 West Hall
1085 South University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
Voice: (734) 647-8040 Fax: (734)764-2475
http://www.si.umich.edu/
rieh
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2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory
firm)
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.asis
.org/Conferences/AM07/
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