[Asis-l] Tenure Track LIS Position(s) at Rutgers Univ.

[Marie Radford]

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S) LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE ASSISTANT,
ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

The Department of Library and Information Science in the School of
Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University Of New
Jersey, seeks applications from scholars conducting innovative research in
the areas of health informatics, data science, and/or interaction and design
in digital environments who value a climate of cross-departmental
collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of
discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges.

Health Informatics
  
In anticipation of our merger with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers welcomes
applicants with background and research interests overlapping Information
Science and Health Informatics, including but not limited to:
.	Health information and communication technologies from the health
provider (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals)
and/or consumer perspective;
.	Technology-based interventions to improve public health through
wellness promotion;
.	Innovative research in designing technologies to support healthy
living of an aging population;
.	Research oriented in health applications through advanced Natural
Language Processing (NLP) approach, knowledge integration, mobile
technologies, or novel user interface designs.

Data Science

The phenomenon of "big data" is spreading in both industry and academia.  We
seek researchers with interests including but not limited to:
.	New technologies for analytics, modeling and visualization;
.	New methods for collaboration with working scientists to further
scientific analysis;
.	Innovative research on the process of moving data to repositories,
curation, management, and exploiting/mining the data;
.	Explorations of questions involving policy, ethics, and related
aspects of large data collections;
.	Users of "big data" including information seeking, user education
and preferences; communication with other users and with systems, and
techniques for users to exploit/mine data.

Interaction and Design in Digital Environments

Individuals and groups interact with one another in a variety of digital
environments, and understanding the relationship between these interactions
and the spaces in which they occur is a new concern.  We encourage
applicants with expertise including but not limited to:

.	User experience design in large-scale social networks;
.	Design of systems to support collaboration and interaction at a
variety of scales, from small groups to large-scale social networks;
.	Understanding information and communication behaviors in large-scale
digital environments.

Qualified applicants to the Department of Library and Information Science
studying one or more of these areas are invited to apply for a faculty
position.   Our department is ranked 6th in the United States among Library
and Information Science programs by U. S. News & World Report.

The scholarship of successful candidates will connect to one or more of the
four problem-based research foci that have guided our school's hiring in
recent years: health and wellness; global media and democracy;
organizations, policy, and leadership; and social media interaction &
collaboration. We especially seek candidates from under-represented groups
who would further our commitment to scholarly excellence and community
diversity.  For more information about the Department of Library and
Information Science and the Rutgers School of Communication and Information,
including school-wide research interests and active faculty searches in the
school's Communication and Journalism and Media Studies departments, see:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant
field no later than May 2013.   The ideal applicant's program of research
should complement the research foci of current faculty.  Applicants should
have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed
publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level
applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research,
instruction, and external funding.  Letter of application should address
these points, and clearly articulate the candidate's fit to specific
departmental and school-wide research interests.  Duties of the successful
applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching in the candidate's
field of scholarship, an active program of research in the candidate's area
of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the
academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to
society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for
tenure-track appointments. 

Submissions: Applications must be received no later than December 1, 2012.
Submit to: http://its.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/facultysearch/. Include letter of
application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and
contact information of three references (no letters at this time please).
Please do not submit applications to more than one department.  If you see a
potential fit in more than one department please indicate this in your
application letter. 

Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher
education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research
universities in North America.  The School of Communication and Information
is a founding member of the iSchools Caucus. An equal opportunity and
affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is
committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of
women and minority candidates. As evidence of that, among peer public
institutions (public universities in the Association of American
Universities), Rutgers is 4th in the nation for full-time female faculty,
14th in the nation for full-time African-American faculty, and 15th in the
nation for full-time total minority faculty. Among those same schools
Rutgers ranks 2nd in the percentage of degrees earned by African Americans,
8th for Asians, and 11th for Latinos.