Director Search Notes
What makes a good director
- understand web page development
- expertise with digital assets
management
- ability to work with scholars and
students to make the right information accessible
- ability to work well with information
technologists (e.g., campus computing)
- ability to mentor others (help them
keep up with latest trends)
The library provides
- Access
- Reliability (reuse of
materials)
- Provenance
- Authority ?
All of which are essential for scholarship
Is this still true? (no, the network obliterates these)
Consumer or creator
In particular, without effective informatics teaching, a
serious risk exists that Europe becomes a mere consumer of
technologies designed elsewhere, running on devices also
manufactured elsewhere.
scientific and engineering approach
Computational Thinking The problem-solving techniques
include:
- Representing information through
abstractions such as models and simulations.
- Logically structuring and analyzing
data.
- Automating solutions through
algorithmic thinking, involving carefully described sequences
of steps taken from a well-defined catalog of basic
operations.
- Identifying, analyzing and
implementing possible solutions with the goal of achieving the
most efficient and combination of steps and resources,
including both human and hardware resources.
- Formulating problems in a way that
facilitates the use a computer and computerized tools to help
solve them.
- Generalizing the problem-solving
process to a wide variety of problems.
Our Business
I like to think it is learning and promoting academic
success
Roles
* Advanced understanding of digital technologies and trends and
the impact on information management infrastructure, and the
Library's ability to provide collections and services. *
Actively build and develop a diverse, skilled, and engaged
workforce
Qualifications
- A Master's degree in library and
information science computer science, or a closely related
field.
- Minimum of five years' experience
working in academic research libraries.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current
trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries
and higher education.
- Substantive knowledge of digital
assets and the technical infrastructure required for their
life-cycle management, including metadata requirements,
migration strategies, best practices in digital preservation,
and relevant national and international standards.
- Substantive knowledge of library
systems, digital libraries, and digital repositories.
- Familiarity with modern software
developmentmethodologies and technologies.