ISBN: 9781101985397
    Author: Hoag, Tami

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks.

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Northwest Regional Library, Regional Director, Thief River Falls, MN

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(December 28, 2018). Axiell Media announces the win of the competitive procurement for digital media to all the 790 Finnish public libraries. The company is with the framework the main supplier of systems and products for the distribution of digital literature to the libraries. With the solution, Finland's patrons will have improved access to digital reading when Axiell Media enters the Finnish market.

(December 28, 2018). Axiel announced it has won the Zug City and Cantonal Library in Switzerland as a customer for its public library software. After an evaluation project which lasted nearly a year, the city council of Zug decided in favour of Axiell Arena and Quria®. The Library will use these solutions to present and manage its entire media inventory (physical and digital) and all other offerings and information via a single platform. With Axiell Quria, the customer will benefit from a platform which makes daily work routines more efficient. It completely revamps the way staff are guided by workflows and how catalogue search is performed, which therefore removes all barriers between physical and digital assets.

    ISBN: 9780525501411
    Author: Evanovich, Janet

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks.

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Orange Coast College, Librarian, Costa Mesa, CA

Colorado State University Libraries, Science Liaison Librarian, Fort Collins, CO

Cornell University, Assistant Director, Metadata Production, Ithaca, NY

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(December 21, 2018). Digital Library Federation announced four new members to the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee, Stephen Abrams, Salwa Ismail, Linda Tadic, and Paige Walker!

(December 21, 2018). On November 29, 2018, over 20 forward-thinking library directors and management team members from across the southeast met at Gwinnett County Public Library's Suwanee branch in Georgia to discuss the role of innovative technology in library service.

(December 21, 2018). As the country gathers to celebrate the year-end holidays, many communities also celebrate their public libraries and how they've transformed into innovative community centers offering services that include access to digital books. To shine a light on readers' digital habits, Rakuten OverDrive, the leading digital reading platform for libraries, has announced the Most Popular Ebooks and Audiobooks from the Library in 2019. This is based on data from over 90 percent of public libraries in the US.

(December 20, 2018). Innovative Interfaces, a leading global provider of library automation software, announced New Orleans Public Library has selected the Polaris Integrated Library System as a hosted solution.

New vacancy listings are posted weekly on Wednesday at approximately 12 noon Central Time. They appear under New This Week and under the appropriate regional listing. Postings remain on the LITA Job Site for a minimum of four weeks.

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Sonoma State University Library, Online Learning Librarian (Tenure-Track) Senior Assistant Librarian, Rohnert Park, CA

University of Rhode Island, Manager, Library/Scholarly Technology Labs, Kingston, RI

Auburn University Libraries, Specialist III/IV, Information Technology (Web Developer), Auburn, AL

WESTAT, Librarian, Rockville, MD

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(December 19, 2018). Public libraries are uniquely positioned to support individuals in pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams by offering free access to technology, meeting spaces, skills training, information and networking opportunities. However, there is no set model for how libraries can best leverage those assets, and there are opportunities for all libraries to elevate their position in their community's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

(December 19, 2018). Libraries Connect Ohio has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to provide more than 2,500 school, academic and public libraries throughout Ohio with free access to Gale digital resources through LCO and its partners – OhioLINK, OPLIN and InfOhio. These new resources provide Ohio residents and students with reliable, high-quality content that supports education and teaching, lifelong learning, research and personal enrichment.

(December 19, 2018). Tusind tak for et godt år 2018. Vi har igen i år haft travlt, og jeg synes at vi har nået en række vigtige resultater.

(December 19, 2018). Patron Point announced that the Urbandale Public Library has selected Patron Point as its patron relationship management system. "We want to explore more patron-centered communications that draw upon an individual's interests," states Julie Wells, Director of the Urbandale Public Library. “That way we can deepen our relationships with patrons and, ultimately, increase use of our collections, services, and programs.”

(December 18, 2018). Data analytics has helped Yolo County Library improve program outcomes and services. The library is using Analytics On Demand from Gale, a Cengage company, to better understand the households in its communities and design customized library services and resources to fit their needs. Now, Yolo County librarians can make data-driven decisions to identify new outreach strategies that promote their programs to the communities they serve.

(December 18, 2018). Bart Murphy, an innovative technology leader with significant application development and infrastructure management experience, has been named Chief Technology and Information Officer of OCLC.

(December 18, 2018). Libraries can now offer patrons and researchers access to a unique historical archive of literary and cultural commentary, spanning more than 150 years of American history. Now available through EBSCO Information Services, The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, is a complete archive of the leading monthly magazine, The Atlantic. The archive enables libraries to expand their special collections with a valuable historical resource for past and contemporary research.

(December 17, 2018). Innovative Interfaces announced the appointment of Joe McMorris as Global Chief Information Officer. Committed to providing the industry's highest technical and security standards, Innovative has designated McMorris to support and extend Innovative services offerings for security, hosting, monitoring, disaster recovery, compliance and managed services for libraries across 66 countries. Prior to joining Innovative, McMorris served as CIO at Wolters Kluwer overseeing cloud hosting and database operations for the Governance, Risk and Compliance.

(December 17, 2018). OCLC partnered with Springer Nature to automate e-resource management workflows, eliminating the need for manual intervention by library staff.