University of Kentucky School of Information Science
Deadline: Open until filled

The iSchool at the University of Kentucky has the following two openings for Assistant Professor.

• Assistant Professor, Knowledge Organization: Teaching and research responsibilities include one or more areas in knowledge organization: information organization, indexing, document description, classification, controlled vocabularies, and information retrieval.

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• Assistant Professor Digital Youth: Teaching and research responsibilities include one or more areas in digital youth: digital engagement, youth information practices, multiliteracies, inclusive design, personalized learning, participatory design, design thinking, formal and informal learning practices, library and information programs and services for children and youth, and school library programs and services.

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Carnegie Mellon University
Deadline: Open until filled

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries invites applications for a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Software Curation. The primary focus of the fellowship will be to collaborate with faculty, students, library staff, and technologists to advance the Libraries’ software preservation and curation strategies. The Fellow will partner with CMU Libraries and research faculty and staff from a range of CMU colleges and programs to develop and implement strategies for a sustainable approach to supporting life-cycle management of research software. They will also help to train faculty, staff, and students in software preservation tools and techniques. Through this research activity, the Fellow will play a key role in developing a model for software preservation and curation workflows, policies, and strategies in the CMU Libraries. This Fellow’s time will be split between pursuing their own original research, and collaborating with and mentoring other researchers, including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates pursuing open science. Applicants must be comfortable working in an interdisciplinary and collaborative research setting and have a working understanding of the research life-cycle.

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EBSCO Information Services
Deadline: Open until filled

The mission of the Semantic Enrichment Manager is to provide operational leadership for the Semantic Enrichment team—consisting of ontologists, taxonomists, and machine learning specialists—through improving workflows, reporting, and systems, fostering collaboration and career development, and leading strategically important projects.

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Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University, SIS
Deadline: Open until filled

The Living Analytics Research Centre is a research centre set up in Singapore Management University with Carnegie Mellon University as our strategic partner.

The Research Fellow/Scientist will work with faculty researchers on one or more of the following research topics in the urban/social computing, smart cities and consumer business domains:

• Data and Text Mining
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Crowdsourcing
• Recommender Systems
• Social-Urban Sensing
• Big Data Infrastructure

The candidate will also be responsible for one or more of the following aspects:

• Design research methodologies
• Develop algorithms and models
• Conduct data science studies
• Design and conduct experiments
• Design and implement applications, tools and systems
• Develop analytics capabilities in big data infrastructure

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Deadline: June 4, 2018

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Information Sciences. . Reporting to and working with the Provost, and in coordination with the Deans from other colleges and schools, the Dean will have responsibility for the strategic, programmatic, financial, fundraising, and management operations that support the mission and vision of the School of Information Sciences and its role within The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Inquiries, nominations, and applications are invited. The university strongly encourages nominations of, as well as applications from, individuals traditionally underrepresented in academia.

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. For full consideration, applications should be received by Monday, June 4, 2018. Candidates should provide a curriculum vitae, and a letter of interest that addresses the responsibilities and requirements described above, as well as the applicant’s motivation to apply. These materials should be sent electronically, in confidence to Korn Ferry consultants Josh Ward and Ken Kring at email address iSchoolDeanUIUC@KornFerry.com. The search consultants can be reached to answer questions about the position or the application by telephone at (405)640-3994 (Josh) or (215)656-5309 (Ken).

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The iSchool at the University of California, Berkeley
Deadline: Open until filled

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for multiple Postdoctoral Scholars, in the area of Data Science, at 100% time, to help teach in, build, and be an integral part of our web-based Master of Information and Data Science program (datascience.berkeley.edu).

The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the School. Positions typically start in January, May, and August, and appointments may be renewed based on need, funding, and performance.vWe are currently hiring for summer semester 2018. This is a full-time, one- or two-year, renewable, postdoctoral position.

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iSchool at University of California, Berkeley
Deadline: December 12, 2018

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of part-time, non-tenure track lecturers to teach courses in Information and Cybersecurity. We are seeking outstanding lecturers who can teach 15-person sections in our web-based Master’s of Information and Cybersecurity program (cybersecurity.berkeley.edu). Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending on the needs of the school. Positions typically start in January, May, and August, and appointments may be renewed based on need, funding, and performance. In addition to teaching responsibilities, general duties include holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, and preparing course materials.

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IU School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI
Deadline: Open until filled

The Department of Library and Information Science at the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI seeks Associate Faculty for several undergraduate courses in the area of Applied Data and Information Science, beginning with the fall semester 2018. This program prepares undergraduate students for a data-driven workforce and society and aims to teach data curation, management, and representation, while addressing social and technical implications.

We are currently recruiting for Associate Faculty who would be interested in teaching undergraduate courses in the following subjects:
• Introduction to Data Studies
• Data Representation and Organization
• Information Representation

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National Chengchi University-Graduate Institute of Library Information and Archival Studies (LIAS) (Taiwan)
Deadline: Open until filled

Academic Qualifications:
1. Professional specialties in Library Information, Archival Studies & History, Computer Science & Information Engineering, Information Management, Publishing Science & Communication, or closely related fields, with outstanding performance or great potential.
2. Applicants qualified to teach one of the following courses and communication skills in Chinese are preferred:
Core courses: Information Behavior & User Study, Library and Information Services, Archival Management & Applications, Digital Humanities, Information Retrieval.

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Twitter
Deadline: Open until filled

Twitter is looking to hire a director of research to develop an overall vision and strategy for social science research at Twitter, particularly as it relates to the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation on our platform.

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