[Asis-l] Faculty Position: SLIS, Indiana University Bloomington

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Faculty Position (Open rank)
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University's (IU) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) 
at Bloomington invites applications for a full-time faculty position. 
Appointment as assistant, associate, or full professor is possible. Areas 
of particular interest include but are not limited to: collection 
development and evaluation, data mining, history of the book, information 
retrieval.

SLIS has an interdisciplinary faculty whose backgrounds include cognitive 
science, computer science, information science, librarianship, 
linguistics, philosophy, and political science. Its faculty was recently 
ranked first in North America for its scholarly productivity and impact. 
In addition to the Master of Library Science (MLS) degree, the school 
offers the Master of Information Science (MIS), a Ph.D. in Information 
Science and an extensive roster of dual degrees, certificates and 
specializations. The school's programs have been accredited continuously 
by the American Library Association for more than half a century.

Indiana University Bloomington is a major public research university with 
1,600 full-time faculty and 38,000 students. The beautiful campus, 
situated in one of the top ten "best college towns" in the U.S., hosts 
more than 100 research centers and institutes, as well as a wide array of 
distinguished academic departments and schools. Indiana University's 
library collections are among the largest in the nation, and the 
university is consistently rated one of the best networked in the U.S.

Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, 
offering a full range of benefits, including TIAA/CREF. Salary is 
competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. To apply, 
submit a letter of application discussing how your research and teaching 
interests connect with those of the school along with names and addresses 
of three references (six for consideration as associate or full professor) 
and your curriculum vitae. Informal inquiries are encouraged, and can be 
made to either Debora Shaw or Howard Rosenbaum, search committee 
co-chairs; applications, nominations and curricula vitae should be sent to 
this address as well.


Dr. Debora Shaw & Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Co-chairs
School of Library and Information Science
Main Library 011
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
phone: (812) 855-3261; (812) 855-3250; fax: (812) 855-6166
E-mail: shawd at indiana.edu; hrosenba at indiana.edu