I would like to extend to all of you the best wishes for this long weekend, and particularly to wish those of you who celebrate them, a Happy Passover and Happy Easter.

 

Louise Spiteri

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the MLIS program has been granted continued accreditation status by the Committee on Accreditation, American Library Association.  We have been granted full accreditation for seven years.  I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all my colleagues at SIM, our wonderful students and alumni, as well as all our SIM friends for the group effort that went into the preparation and presentation of our Program Presentation.

With thanks,

Louise Spiteri

The CLA Access 2012 Conference committee has begun posting all their talks on their Youtube channel. Here’s a link for those of you interested in watching our presentation on 3D printing at Dalhousie University Libraries:

Discovering New Dimension – Marc Comeau, Riel Gallant, and Michael Groenendyk at Access 2012 in Montreal

Good morning and happy New Year!

The latest issue of Inform is now available; it covers the period from July to December 2012 and can be found on the SIM website.  We look forward to receiving your updates and hearing your feedback.

 

 

 

The Winter term Public Lecture Series kicks off next Thursday with a lecture by Louise Spiteri. Stay tuned for more upcoming lectures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIM and the Centre for Advanced Management Education (CFAME) are organizing a drive to support Phoenix House, a Halifax-based, non-profit organization whose mandate is to offer at-risk and homeless youth (ages 12 – 24) the opportunity to break the cycle of homelessness and find a better path. Donation boxes will be placed in the front offices of SIM and CFAME until early to mid-December.  Please see the Phoenix House holiday wish list for suggested donations.

 

 

On October 20th fellow SIM student Michael Groenendyk and I went to Access 2012 and presented our Killam Library 3D printing and scanning pilot project to a room of over a hundred tech-focused Information Professionals.  We’ll have a detailed report on the conference and our presentation in SIM’s upcoming issue of Inform.

You may want to check out some of these notable speakers we got the opportunity to hear:

The first talk on Friday was by Aaron Straup Cope, formerly of Flickr, now working with the Smithsonian National Design Museum. Here’s a video of another great talk he gave in New York:  Stories from the New Aesthetic

Art Rhyno was a favourite at the conference—he spoke Saturday morning on his OCR newspaper digitization project at the University of Windsor. He doesn’t often come to Access and many people were eager to meet him.

watching Art Rhyno talking about newspapers, ocr, tesseract, backblaze github.com/artunit/ossocr #AccessYUL

— Ed Summers (@edsu) October 20, 2012

Alistair Croll presented Friday and held a very memorable talk on Big Data—a great speaker worth hearing and a topic worth looking into.

We’d like to thank the Dalhousie University Libraries and SIM for this great opportunity.

School of Information Management

Probationary, tenure-track position

 The Dalhousie School of Information Management (SIM) seeks a dynamic and innovative colleague to join our team. Applications are invited for a probationary tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2013. The School (http://sim.management.dal.ca) offers two graduate programs and contributes to a collaboratively-delivered undergraduate program. At the graduate level, SIM offers the American Library Association-accredited Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) program, and the mid-career blended learning Master of Information Management (MIM) program. At the undergraduate level, the School provides core and elective courses in the Bachelor of Management program, notably in the Knowledge Management major. The School also participates in Dalhousie’s Interdisciplinary PhD program.

The School is part of the interdisciplinary Faculty of Management (http://www.dal.ca/faculty/management.html), with the Schools of Business Administration, Public Administration, and Resource and Environmental Studies. The Faculty of Management has a commitment to values-based management with a focus on sustainability, and getting things done. We seek an additional colleague who will contribute to, and thrive in, this environment.

This position combines teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities. The School seeks candidates with a strong interest in, and capacity for, interdisciplinary research. Candidates will be expected to teach in at least two of the programs at the graduate or undergraduate levels. Professional information management experience will be an asset.

The successful candidate will have a PhD at or near completion in information management or in a related discipline, with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

•  Data management: curation, preservation, and visualization
• Information risk management
• New and emerging media
• Organizational learning, collaboration, and knowledge management

Dalhousie University (http://www.dal.ca/) is one of Canada’s leading teaching and research universities with four professional faculties, a Faculty of Graduate Studies, and a diverse complement of graduate programs. Inter-faculty collaborative and interactive research is encouraged, as is cooperation in teaching. Dalhousie University inspires students, faculty, staff and alumni to make significant contributions regionally, nationally, and to the world.

Dalhousie University is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is a vibrant, capital city and is the business, academic, and medical centre for Canada’s east coast.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, and women.

Deadline for applications: December 20, 2012

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching and research competencies, and three confidential letters of reference (forwarded under separate cover from the referees) to:

Dr. Bertrum MacDonald

Chair, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee

School of Information Management

Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building

6100 University Avenue, Suite 4010

PO BOX 15000

Halifax, NS B3H 4R2

Bertrum.MacDonald@dal.ca

Fax:  902-494-2451

Voice:  902-494-2472

 

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.