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Faculty Position (Assistant Professor rank)
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University’s (IU) School of Library and Information
Science
(SLIS)
at Bloomington invites applications for a full-time
tenure-track
faculty position
at the rank of Assistant Professor of Library and
Information
Science. Areas
of particular interest include but are not limited to:
collection
development
and management, public libraries, and evaluation of
resources and
services.
The successful candidate will have earned a doctorate in
library
science or
a closely related field and will demonstrate evidence of
effective
teaching and
scholarship with experience/expertise in the areas mentioned
above.
SLIS has an interdisciplinary faculty whose backgrounds
include
cognitive
science, computer science, information science,
librarianship,
linguistics,
philosophy, and political science. Its faculty was recently
ranked
first in North
America for its scholarly productivity and impact. In
addition to the
Master of
Library Science (MLS) degree, the school offers the Master
of
Information
Science (MIS), a Ph.D. in Information Science and an
extensive roster of
dual degrees, certificates and specializations. The school’s
programs
have
been accredited continuously by the American Library
Association for
more
than half a century.
Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research
university
with
1,700 faculty and 38,000 students. The beautiful campus,
situated in one
of the top ten “best college towns” in the U.S., hosts 110
research
centers
and institutes, as well as a wide array of distinguished
academic
departments
and schools. Indiana University’s library collections are
among the
largest
in the nation, and the university is consistently rated one
of the
best networked
in the U.S.
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. Completion of the
doctoral degree
(or
near-completion for appointment at lecturer rank) is
required. This
appointment
will begin in Fall 2008 or Spring 2009.
To apply, submit a letter of application discussing how your
research
and
teaching interests connect with those of the school along
with names and
addresses of three references and your curriculum vitae.
Informal
inquiries
are encouraged, and can be made to Howard Rosenbaum, search
committee
chair; applications, nominations and curricula vitae should
be sent
to this address
as well.
Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Chair, Search Committee
School of Library and Information Science
Main Library 011
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
phone: (812) 855-3261; (812) 855-3250; fax: (812) 855-6166
E-mail: hrosenba indiana.edu
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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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