Announcing #Alt-Academy. Readers of this blog will know that, for more than a year, I have been working with a group of wonderful people to bring an edited collection collection of essays and a distributed, online community into focus.
(You can see some of my past #alt-ac writing here, or follow the conversation on Twitter.) #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers. The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind' - Advice. By Thomas H.
Benton A year ago, I wrote a column called "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go," advising students that grad school is a bad idea unless they have no need to earn a living for themselves or anyone else, they are rich or connected (or partnered with someone who is), or they are earning a credential for a job they already hold. Position Descriptions Collection. Scholarly communication can be defined as “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.
The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels, such as electronic listservs.” In an environment that is increasingly global, the ARL Scholarly Communication program encourages the advancement of effective, extensible, sustainable, and economically viable models of scholarly communication that provide barrier-free access to quality information. ARL also encourages initiatives for new modes of scholarship that demonstrate promise for the future. The program currently has the following components: Below are links to information and resources on key topics in scholarly communication.
ACRL/NY: Association of College and Research Libraries, Greater New York Metropolitan Area Chapter » Jobs. Position Details. Digital Services Librarian York University Libraries York University offers a world-class, modern, interdisciplinary academic experience in Toronto, Canada's most multicultural city.
York is at the centre of innovation, with a thriving community of almost 60,000 faculty, staff and students who challenge the ordinary and deliver the unexpected. York University Libraries are committed to building a strong digital culture in support of teaching and learning at York University. In support of further growth in this area, York University Libraries are seeking an innovative and energetic librarian for the position of Digital Services Librarian in Bibliographic Services. The #alt-ac Track: Negotiating Your 'Alternative Academic' Appointment.
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Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library. (That's the Scholars' Lab to you and me.) Open Letter to 2010-11's First-Time Tenure-Track Professors. Today at ProfHacker we begin a new series on the transitions we experience and move through in higher education.
One of the biggest (shocking, startling, unsettling, stress producing) transitions is from graduate student to full-time tenure-track assistant professor. And that's our post today: "An Open Letter to Next Year's Full-Time Tenure Track Assistant Professors. " Working in higher education can be difficult, and as graduate students, we think we understand those difficulties.
We think we've been trained to handle whatever comes our way. Then we get the tenure track position, and, well, the transition from grad student to faculty member isn't always pretty. A few weeks ago, in preparation for this post, I asked my on-line blogging and twitter friends--folks who went on the job market and into first jobs at the same time I did--what one piece of advice they wish they'd received before they started their first tenure track position.
And finally, How about you? Versatilephd.com. #alt-ac. This is a temporary landing-spot for a project to assemble a timely and important collection of essays, titled “#alt-ac: Alternate Academic Careers for Humanities Scholars.”
Newsflash! Here’s a press release from MediaCommons about the upcoming publication of this edited collection within an exciting new, community-driven, open-access framework. Newsflash 2! It’s out! Recherche - #alt-ac. Yale DH library job. Digital Humanities Librarian jobs - washingtonpost.com. Jobs at King's. Gains in history job market may mask serious challenges for those seeking positions. The number of faculty job openings listed with the American Historical Association in the 2011-12 academic year was up 18 percent.
But a report being released by the association today cautions against any suggestion that the increase means that finding a job -- especially a tenure-track job -- is easy for new Ph.D.s. Other data in the report show that the history job market has not yet recovered from the sharp drop in available positions that followed the economic downturn that started in the fall of 2008, that the number of new Ph.D.s continues to go up, and that there is not always a consistent alignment between the specialties of those earning doctorates and the positions that are available.
The data on job openings are from those positions listed with the association. While the AHA does not receive notices of all openings, making the data set incomplete, most experts believe that the ups and downs noted in association listings are a good proxy for the history job market as a whole.