[Asis-l] Faculty Position Opening at San Jose State University SLIS

[Linda Main]

Live anywhere (Employment is contingent upon proof of eligibility to work
in the United States).
Teach great students http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/meet/
Use the newest technologies to develop innovative online classes.
Work with a top grant writer and collegial faculty.


San Jose State University¹s School of Library and Information Science is
recruiting an Assistant Professor in Informatics.  The successful
applicant will work in collaboration with faculty in other disciplines to
design 100% online graduate courses that will apply Informatics skills to
specific knowledge fields (such as health sciences and/or business and/or
any other discipline).  The courses will be available to SLIS students as
well as graduate students in the partner disciplines.  The new faculty
member will also work with partners in other disciplines in collaborative
research and fundable grants.


The applicant should have strengths in some of the following areas:

-Data management
-Data mining and data analysis
-Data organization, structures, and analysis
-Data visualizations
-Decision support systems
-Electronic records privacy and security
-Information processing to support different cognitive styles
-Knowledge retrieval
-Social aspects of informatics
-Taxonomies
-Vocabularies and terminologies


The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San Jose State
University is part of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts and 
is fully accredited by the American Library Association through
2014. Since Fall 2009 courses are delivered only online. In addition to
the online MLIS degree SLIS offers an online master¹s degree in archives
and records administration (MARA) and a gateway Ph.D. program with
Queensland University of Technology.  The School has a rich technological
environment (Desire2Learn Learning Management System, Blackboard
Collaborate Web conferencing; School-wide text and video Blackboard IM;
Panopto; and Web 2.0 tools).


Check out the SLIS Annual Review to see what our students and faculty are
doing (http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/annualreview/).

We require an earned doctorate; a strong record of scholarly and
professional achievement in some of the areas listed above; a willingness
to work in a virtual environment with colleagues from different
disciplines; and an excitement and enjoyment for teaching and working
online. If a candidate does not hold an MLIS, the doctorate must be in
library and information science or an allied field.


Send by October 30th 2011:

(1)  A letter of application that addresses in detail the requirements
listed above
(2) A statement of the department(s) outside of SLIS with whom you could
collaborate
(3) A curriculum vitae
(4) Three original letters of reference with contact information


Application material should be sent electronically (pdf or a URL) to:

Dr. Linda Main, Chair of the Search Committee at: Linda.Main at sjsu.edu
Please include Job Opening ID: 14164


If interested in talking informally at the ASIS&T Conference in October,
please let Dr. Main know.

For more information about the School please go to:
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sections/aboutus.htm



Linda Main Ph.D.
Associate Director
Coordinator of Admissions and Academic Advising

School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu