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9 August 2010

Assistant Executive Editor, Yale Indian Papers Project / Assistant Editor, Collections Lewis Walpole Library

Rank: Band 2 – Grade 23
Duration: Fixed, Three (3) years from date of hire
Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00)

The University and the Library

One of the world's leading research libraries, Yale University Library is a full partner in teaching, research, and learning at Yale and is visited by scholars from around the world. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including approximately thirteen million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and digital collections. Housed in twenty-two buildings including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the new Bass Library, it employs a dynamic and diverse staff of nearly six hundred who offer innovative and flexible services to library readers. To learn more about Yale University Library and its collections and services, visit www.library.yale.edu.

The Lewis Walpole Library

The Lewis Walpole Library is a research library for eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include significant holdings of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings, as well as important examples of the decorative arts. Housed in an historic frame house in Farmington and given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis, the Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library, open to researchers by appointment. For additional information on the collections, please visit www.library.yale.edu/walpole and http://www.library.yale.edu/yipp/.

Position Description

Under the direction and guidance of the Executive Editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project, the Assistant Executive Editor will assist in preparing a scholarly edition of primary research materials including, but not limited to, correspondence, petitions, journals, and other associated papers pertaining to New England and Connecticut Native Americans during the American colonial era. Specific editorial duties include specialized research in manuscript materials, textual analysis, and application of editorial apparatus. Target start date: September 1, 2010.

Essential Duties

Researches, transcribes, and edits seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England and Connecticut manuscripts. Composes critical introductions, annotations, and commentaries based on own research or supplied information for inclusion in the Project’s permanent digital collection. Responsible for organizing, analyzing, and annotating seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England Indian documents pertaining to land, land use, and reservation issues. Reviews annotations and verifies transcriptions in collaboration with other Project editing staff. Prepares materials for electronic coding and database entering. Searches for additional primary materials in other research and manuscript collections. Research may include travel to other repositories to discover other suitable materials for inclusion in the scholarly edition. May assist in supervising student assistants. Acts as liaison representing Project to regional Native groups, researchers, and elders.

Assists the Executive Editor in decision-making regarding the preparation and electronic publishing of materials for inclusion in the New England Indian Papers Project collection, including, but not limited to, research and collection strategies and texts to incorporate in annotations. Independently solves problems related to understanding and identifying certain historical facts and concepts, to locating research information, and to producing edited, publication-ready, materials. Responds to relevant correspondence and queries from students, faculty, and scholars. As a member of the Lewis Walpole Library’s professional staff, may participate in the Library’s public programs. May be required to assist in disaster recovery efforts.

Qualifications

Graduate work in History, Native American Studies, or equivalent advanced knowledge in a related field. Thorough knowledge of the documentary history of New England/Connecticut Native Americans and their communities, especially as it relates to land, land use, and Indian reservations. Thorough knowledge of research techniques and experience in archival repositories regionally, nationally, and internationally. Five years of experience in historical editing and researching New England and Connecticut Native Americans. Proven work with Connecticut Native American tribal communities. Well-developed transcribing, proofreading, indexing, and editing skills. Effective oral and written communication skills. Strong organizational, analytic, and supervisory skills, and problem solving abilities. Ability to work cooperatively in a demanding and rapidly changing environment.

Preferred: M.A. in History, Native American Studies, or related field; Experience in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paleography, including the ability to read, understand, and interpret secretary hand.

Salary and Benefits

We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University. One of the country's great workplaces, Yale University offers exciting opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, liberal paid time off, fantastic family and educational benefits, a variety of retirement benefits, extensive recreational facilities, and much more. Applications consisting of a cover letter, resume, and the names of three professional references should be sent by creating an account and applying online at www.yale.edu/jobs for immediate consideration - the STARS req ID for this position is 10559BR. Please be sure to reference #10559BR in your cover letter.

Background Check Requirements

All external candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent on successful completion of a background check. Please visit www.yale.edu/hronline/careers/screening/faqs.html for additional information on the background check requirements and process.

Yale University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Yale values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students and strongly encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented minority groups.

3 August 2010

Assistant/Associate Textual Editor - The Peirce Edition Project

Background

The Peirce Edition Project (http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce) is a unit of the Institute for American Thought (IAT) in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts. It produces a 30-volume chronological and critical edition of the writings of American philosopher and scientist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914), in both print and electronic formats. Peirce is acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s most rigorous and original thinkers. He left behind a large collection of publications and unpublished manuscripts, covering all manner of topics in the hard sciences (e.g., mathematics, geodesy, physics, chemistry, astronomy) and the humanities (e.g., logic, philosophy, metaphysics, cosmology, history of philosophy and of the sciences, linguistics, semiotics, psychology, cognitive sciences). The Writings of Charles S. Peirce are a selective but comprehensive edition designed to document the development of Peirce’s thought and promote the critical study of his intellectual growth and interdisciplinary impact.

The IAT (http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat) is a humanities research facility with an internationally acclaimed concentration of resources and scholarship. It unites the teaching faculty, editing specialists, and research holdings of the Peirce Edition Project, the Santayana Edition, the Works of Josiah Royce, the Frederick Douglass Papers, and the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies with related academic programs in American Studies, Professional Editing, and American Philosophy.

Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis is an urban university of 30,000 students. IUPUI is an EEO/AA employer, M/F/D with a strong commitment to diversity; we encourage a diverse applicant pool for this position.

Job Description

The Peirce Edition Project is seeking an Assistant or Associate Textual Editor whose primary responsibility is to assist the Edition’s Textual Editor in the following tasks: tracing the genealogy of manuscripts bearing on philosophy, logic, mathematics, and much else; collating parallel texts, identifying copy-texts to be used as base-texts in the edition, and building an argument for their selection; describing the physical characteristics of a document according to bibliographical standards; editing transcriptions according to standard textual theory guidelines (this is neither copy editing nor academic editing); building the textual apparatus of a scholarly edition, including the record of editorial interventions, textual notes, rejected substantives; regularizing and normalizing texts; maintaining the Project’s editorial guide as policies and procedures evolve.

Job Position and Title

This is a faculty position classified administratively as Research Associate. The Research Associate will receive the title of Assistant or Associate Textual Editor, depending upon qualifications and experience. This is a two-year, grant-funded position, which may be continued if the grant is renewed and the candidate meets expectations.

Starting Salary

$34,000.00 to $38,000.00 on a twelve-month contract plus generous fringe benefits, renewable annually. For information on benefits see: http://www.hra.iupui.edu/HRA/Benefits/Default.asp

Academic Preparation

Required: A master’s degree in English, history, or philosophy with a minor or certificate in textual studies, or professional or scholarly editing (or equivalent)
Preferred: a Ph.D. in the same.

Required Qualifications

Considerable writing skills and competence in textual analysis. Candidates whose principal skills are limited to copy-editing need not apply.
Knowledge of critical textual theories.
Experience in scholarly editing, whether documentary or critical: knowledge of copy-text theory, multiple-text collation techniques, presswork stages, bibliographical description methods.
Understanding of the different components of a textual apparatus, their aims, uses, and compilation methods.
Demonstrated interest in the humanities.
Computer skills, including word processors and page layout software.

Preferred Qualifications

Three to five years experience working with a scholarly edition.
Well organized, capable of working under pressure and deadlines, and able to communicate efficiently with editors and production staff.
Ability to learn quickly and conform to the demands of complex critical editions.
Knowledge of the editing/publishing trade, of current electronic and web-based publishing technologies, and familiarity with the Textual Encoding Initiative (TEI) are plusses.

Reporting Relationship

The position reports to both the Textual Editor and the Director & General Editor of the Peirce Edition Project. The Assistant/Associate Textual Editor is expected to collaborate with all Project editors and staff.

Contact Information

Send letter of interest, resume, writing sample on a textual studies subject or scholarly editing sample, and three reference names with contact information to mrujuwa@iupui.edu. Applications must be received electronically by 30 August 2010.

7 July 2010

Project Manager/Assistant Editor - The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania seeks a Project Manager/Assistant Editor to plan and develop a digital historical documentary editing project and to provide general editorial assistance for the society’s print publications, the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania Legacies. This half-time (20 hours per week), two-year, grant-funded position reports to the Director of Publications and Scholarly Programs.

Responsibilities include:

Serve as project manager for the Greenfield digital project. This interpretive project, based on HSP’s Albert M. Greenfield Papers, one of HSP’s largest and most significant collections documenting Philadelphia’s 20th-century history, will focus on the early years of the Great Depression in Pennsylvania. Project manager will:

Select, transcribe, and XML encode documents and images from the Greenfield Papers and related collections
Work with HSP digitization staff to digitize documents and images
Research and write annotation and contextual essays
Oversee development of related educational resources
Work with Director of Information Technology to develop user-friendly, engaging public interface on HSP’s Web site
Supervise part-time project intern

Serve as assistant editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and of Pennsylvania Legacies, as time permits. Assistant editor may:

Track manuscript and book review submissions
Handle routine correspondence with authors and reviewers
Manage subscriptions and relationship with JSTOR
Fact check, copyedit, and proofread articles and reviews
Handle copyright and permissions issues
Lay out pages for PMHB (in QuarkXPress)
Conduct historical and image research in HSP’s collections
Write copy for Legacies
Maintain publications Web pages

Qualifications: Master’s degree in American history or related field, specialization in 20th-century history preferred; experience in scholarly editing; knowledge of XML encoding, TEI preferred. Computer skills and willingness to work as part of a team essential. Salary $18,500 plus benefits, for 20 hours/week.

Send letter of application with cover letter, resume, list of references, and writing sample to: Tamara Gaskell, Director of Publications and Scholarly Programs, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, or to tgaskell@hsp.org. Deadline August 6. EOE. www.hsp.org.

13 April 2010

Associate Vice President for Library and Information Services, Wheaton College

Located between Boston and Providence, Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with 1,550 students. The College invites applications and nominations for the Associate Vice President for Library and Information Services. This person provides leadership for Library and Information Services in developing innovative strategies and cultivating strong partnerships in the delivery and use of academic information and technologies to support the mission and priorities of the college.

The Wheaton Curriculum offers more than 600 courses in 40 majors and 50 minors. Interdisciplinarity, which lies at the heart of our curriculum, is implemented through connected courses. Our student-faculty ratio of 10-1 and average class size of 15-20 students help foster the close collaborative relationships that develop between our undergraduates and faculty.

With a nationally recognized record of achievement in using technology and information resources to enhance teaching and learning, Wheaton College considers a unified vision of library and information technology critical to fulfilling its liberal arts mission. In 2004, the College merged the Library, Academic Computing, and Information and Technology Services to create Library and Information Services (LIS), which encompasses the functions of research and instruction, collections and public access, technology support and infrastructure. The Associate Vice President for Library and Information Services will lead a team of five individuals who oversee these areas, to continue the development of current programs, provide support for the research and teaching activities of faculty and students, and raise funds by seeking further grant support. In addition, the successful candidate will chair the Administrative Technology Committee and work with the faculty’s Educational Policy Committee and the Library, Technology, and Learning Committee, to develop new initiatives that fulfill curricular goals, including integrating information fluency, new media, and digital scholarship in the educational experience of Wheaton College students.

The successful candidate will create a shared vision through leading collaborative, team-based processes; manage external relationships; and work strategically with college leaders for both library and college-wide interests. This person will:

implement technology and strategic plans to deliver comprehensive, integrated library and information services for the college
manage resources, facilities, and services that respond to the needs of students, faculty, and staff
oversee personnel and resource administration, budget planning and allocation, and overall project management
practice outreach and communication with students, faculty members and administrative staff
set and maintain standards of service and quality
and establish instruments for benchmarking and continuous assessment.

The successful candidate for this position will report directly to the Provost (Chief Academic Officer), work closely with the Vice President for Finance and Operations, and regularly consult with the President’s Council of senior advisors. Where appropriate, the position will carry faculty status.

Requirements: Wheaton College seeks a collaborative and visionary leader with extensive experience in one or more areas of information technology and service in an academic setting. The successful candidate has demonstrated the ability to foster teamwork and work effectively with faculty members and staff at all levels. The new Associate Vice President for Library and Information Services should possess a graduate degree in a relevant field, such as librarianship, information science, computer science, or related field, or have equivalent experience or certification.

For addional information, contact: Kathryn Tomasek Associate Professor Department of History Wheaton College 26 East Main Street Norton, Massachusetts 02766 ktomasek@wheatonma.edu phone: (508) 286-3674