[Asis-l] Faculty Positions - University of Toronto

[Nadia Caidi]

Dear All,
Our Faculty is hiring in a variety of areas. Please help us circulate 
the announcement to students and colleagues.
Thanks,
Nadia Caidi

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The University of Toronto is recruiting five faculty members to join the 
Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) in playing a leading international 
role in its field. Candidates are sought from all ranks, as part of a 
major, multi-year process of Faculty renewal. Consideration will be 
given to all specialisations fitting within the Faculty's 2004-2010 
Academic Plan. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Documentary and Information Practices;
• Health and Medical Informatics;
• Communication, Culture, and Media;
• Books, Documents, and Records;
• Information Systems and Management;
• Information Interaction and Retrieval; and
• Information Policy.

For further details see the Faculty's academic hiring page: 
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/about/facsearch.asp

The official job advertisement appears below, and is located at:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/academicjobs/display_job_detail_public.cfm?JOBID=1568

University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies -- 5-Person 
Faculty Search -- Open rank; open area.

The University of Toronto is recruiting five faculty members to join the 
Faculty of Information Studies (FIS) in playing a leading international 
role in its field. As recognized in the Faculty's 2004-2010 Academic 
Plan [1], society's information practices are being reconfigured and 
transformed by material shifts in underlying systems, technologies, and 
networked infrastructures. Candidates are sought from all ranks to 
collaborate in exploring these new and evolving practices, as part of a 
major, multi-year process of Faculty renewal. Consideration will be 
given to all specialisations fitting within the Plan -- from historical 
roots through present practice to multiple emerging futures. Rank, 
tenure status, and salary would be commensurate with the candidate's 
qualifications and academic accomplishments.

[1] available from 
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/activities/planning/FISAcademicPlan.pdf

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

-- Documentary and Information Practices: The selection, representation, 
classification, organization, management, curation, and preservation of 
organizational and cultural records and objects, including provision of 
effective and equitable access, as transformed by emerging technologies 
of digitization, reproduction, classification, and distribution;

-- Health and Medical Informatics: Information practices and behaviour 
in a wide variety of health fields -- including novel uses of 
information systems, reconfigured knowledge and information practices, 
and other consequences for health care of evolving systems and networks;

-- Communication, Culture, and Media: The social, cultural, and 
political aspects of the socio-technical practices of information system 
design, development, implementation, uptake, reconfiguration, and use;

-- Books, Documents, and Records: The evolving nature and use of books, 
documents, col-lections, records, and other knowledge and information 
media, in a wide range of contexts, genres, organizations, and communities;

-- Information Systems and Management: The strategic design, 
development, and management of new informational systems and practices, 
parlaying emerging technologies and infrastructures into new and 
reconfigured practices in business, education, the public sector, and 
civil society;

-- Information Interaction and Retrieval: Human-computer interaction, 
information retrieval, web- and network-based systems for classification 
and organization, metadata schemes and standards, proposals for a 
semantic web, and other aspects of the design, configuration, and use of 
computer systems supporting information practice; and

-- Information Policy: Issues of information policy, including privacy, 
identity, security, public access, intellectual freedom, intellectual 
property, etc., and how these are being influenced by on-going 
developments in information technology infrastructures and associated 
socio-economic transformations.

Candidates must have a Ph.D., preferably with excellent teaching and 
research experience. Duties include research and teaching at the 
graduate level. Applicants should (i) send curriculum vitae, teaching 
dossier, copies of three representative papers/publications, and a 
statement outlining current and future research interests, and (ii) 
arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent, under separate 
cover, preferably electronically, to:

Email: facultysearch at fis.utoronto.ca

or on paper to:

Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean Faculty of Information Studies, University of 
Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6, Canada

Phone: (416) 978-3202

Application review will begin on December 17, 2004, and continue until 
all positions are filled.

The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct 
research and live in one of the most culturally diverse cities in the 
world. The Faculty of Information Studies provides a context in which to 
work in an emerging interdisciplinary environment and in a range of 
collaborative programs including Knowledge Media Design, Book History 
and Print Culture, Women's Studies, and Aging and the Life Course.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its 
community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority 
group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, 
members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the 
further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are 
encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be 
given priority.