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Inserito il 10/06/2011

Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian

The University of Michigan Library and Oxford University Library have collaborated for several years with three corporate partners, ProQuest Information and Learning, Readex-Newsbank and Gale Cengage Learning, in an international effort to create structurally marked-up full-text transcriptions of early English and American printed books, dating from 1475 to 1800, on behalf of a large and growing academic consortium, the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/. About 48,000 texts have been produced so far, towards a goal of 80,000, representing a substantial portion of the nearly 300,000 books contained in the subscription databases from which they are transcribed: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Evans Early American Imprints, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ProQuest, Readex, and Gale supply the page images; Michigan and Oxford oversee the keying and SGML/XML tagging; and the partner libraries own the resulting corpus. This is arguably the largest and most significant full-text project of its kind undertaken to date, not least in that it is being done under terms that reflect the needs and values of libraries and scholars. Through 2014, the primary focus of the TCP is to produce around 44,000 texts for a second phase of the EEBO-TCP partnership (the first phase, which ended in 2009, produced around 25,000 texts).

The Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian will be appointed as a Librarian (or equivalent professional classification) at the University Library and will work under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for Publishing. The Outreach Librarian will be housed in the MPublishing division at the University of Michigan Library and will interact with a wide range of staff throughout the Library system. The University of Michigan is a national leader in digital library development and the Project Outreach Librarian will be working with skilled digital library and electronic publishing specialists as well as leading collection, service, and processing librarians at Michigan, Oxford, ProQuest, and the libraries funding and supporting the project.

THIS IS A THREE YEAR TERM-LIMITED APPOINTMENT with possibilities for extension. The Project Outreach Librarian is eligible for all the benefits available to employees at the University of Michigan.

Responsibilities
Communication and Marketing: (40%) - develop and implement plans for disseminating information about the TCP project, via print, web-based and personal communication, to potential TCP funding partners as well as to existing partner libraries and their patrons, both students and faculty, worldwide. The goal is to make libraries aware of the project, its significance for research and pedagogy, and the beneficial licensing terms that result from its cooperative structure. The marketing components of this position include significant follow-up and communication with potential partners, as well as presenting about the project and its significance at academic and library professional association meetings.

Facilitation of scholarship: (30%) - serve as the voice of, and liaison with, the scholarly user community as regards the composition of the corpus, the development of tools associated with it, and its practical application to research and instruction. Oversee usability studies of the corpus, changes in its interface design, and the preparation of documentation and instruction, with a view toward improving both its potential for sophisticated research and its ease of use for students. Requires a thorough understanding of the corpus and its connections to related digital corpora, as well as a broad view of its possible uses in widely diverse fields.

Project Administration: (30%) - maintain close communication with and provide support for the AUL for Publishing, production coordinator, and international TCP Executive Committee. Work closely with the Library Finance Office to monitor the budget and partner invoicing process. Communicate regularly with colleagues at Oxford and other interested parties.

To reinforce these activities, the TCP Project Outreach Librarian will be encouraged to use the collections and resources of the University of Michigan to better understand how the TCP project will fit into the overall collection and service efforts of research libraries, and their interaction with campus scholars in support of research and instruction.

Qualifications
Required:

 *   ALA-accredited Master’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of a relevant advanced degree and a minimum of two years of work experience in 1) a research library or archive, 2) scholarly publishing, or 3) university teaching.
 *   Significant undergraduate or graduate study in an aspect of British history, English language or literature, or western civilization.
 *   Demonstrated facility with scholarly electronic resources, and experience in the development of Web resources.
 *   Excellent oral and written communication skills as evidenced in part by a record of scholarly publication and conference presentation.
 *   Demonstrated ability to work effectively with culturally diverse faculty, students, and staff.

Desired:

 *   Knowledge of research library collection development strategies and the impact of digitization on collection development and use.
 *   Familiarity with structured electronic text and the use of textual analysis systems for the study of history, politics, philosophy, history of science, religion, literature, law, and/or linguistics.
 *   Knowledge of markup standards and production systems for digital library creation.
 *   Familiarity with the market for digital resources in the humanities.
 *   Knowledge of scholarly communication patterns in the humanities.

Benefits, Rank and Salary
It is anticipated the position will be filled at the Assistant Librarian or Associate Librarian level. Final rank and salary are dependent on experience and qualifications. Librarians receive 24 days of vacation a year, 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits, as well as opportunities for professional development and travel.

Further information regarding benefits can be found at http://benefits.umich.edu/benefitgroups/faculty.html.

Retirement Options: TIAA-CREF and Fidelity Investments options available.

Application Process
Email a cover letter and CV as attachments to libhumres@umich.edu<mailto:libhumres@umich.edu> addressed to:

Jane Havens
Head of Library Human Resources
404 Hatcher Graduate Library North
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190

For further information, call 734-764-2546 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday.

Application Deadline
Review of applications will begin on June 15, 2011 and will continue until the position is filled.

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