Sunday, February 19, 2012

Job Opportunity / Postdoc: Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

This position is offered through the ACLS Public Fellows program, which will place 13 recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applicants must have received their degrees in the last three years and aspire to careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Applications are accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org) by March 21, 2012. Please do not contact any of the organizations directly. See www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows for more information on the program, positions, eligibility, and application.

ORGANIZATION DESCRIPTION

CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. It seeks to: 1) foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future; 2) expand leadership capacity in the information professions; and 3) analyze changes in the information landscape and help practitioners prepare for them.

CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address both the current crisis in academic publishing and the opportunities presented by digital technology, particularly the emergence of portable electronic reading/writing devices. The publishing platform is fully digital, with titles published on the Web and as apps on portable devices.

Download position description: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) – Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing

Apply through the ACLS website (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows) by March 21, 2012. Do not contact CLIR directly.

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