Preliminary announcement: Slavic digital fellowship at Illinois

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:01:50 -0600
From: Miranda Remnek <mremnek at uiuc.edu>
To: slavlibs at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: Preliminary announcement: Slavic digital fellowship at Illinois
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20031113113051.00b1d880 at staff.uiuc.edu>

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Dear colleagues:

Some of you may know about a new program sponsored by the Council on
Library and Information Resources entitled "CLIR Post-Doctoral
Fellowship
in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists"
(http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/postdoc.html).

But in case you haven't:
"The program will seek scholars who have recently completed, or will
have
completed by the summer of 2004, a humanities Ph.D. and who believe that
there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages among
disciplinary
scholarship, libraries and archives, and evolving digital tools."

Like a number of other institutions, the University of Illinois wil be
participating in this program, and will be offering two fellowship
opportunities.  Last week we learned that our proposed fellowship in the
Slavic Library will be one of them. I've included a short description at
the end of this message.

As indicated on the CLIR website, full application details will be
posted
very shortly.  So, please forward this announcement to anyone you know
who
may be interested in applying!

Many thanks,

Miranda Remnek

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: SLAVIC DIGITAL HUMANITIES

The University of Illinois is seeking an energetic individual for a
two-year appointment as Slavic Digital Humanities Fellow.  Based in the
university's Slavic & East European Library, the Slavic Digital
Humanities
Fellow will have primary responsibility for developing and coordinating
the
Library's Slavic digital humanities program.  The Fellow will act in
consultation with the Head of the Slavic Library, the Manager of
Illinois'
Slavic Reference Service, the Associate University Librarian for
Information Technology, the Library's Digital Services and Development
Unit, the Library's E-text Working Group, and interested faculty in
various
departments including History, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and
Library
& Information Science.

The program will involve promoting a variety of projects and software
applications of value to Slavic humanities scholars.  A major thrust
will
be to acquaint subject specialists with metadata, ditigization and
library
interoperability issues, and thereby advance the use of technology to
enrich Slavic scholarship.  A second goal is to help establish Illinois
as
a national center for Slavic digital humanities.  The prominence of the
Slavic Library and its role in servicing the needs of Slavic scholars
nationwide--by means of the Summer Research Lab (SRL) and the Slavic
Reference Service (SRS)--underscore the need for the Library to assert
itself as a center for Slavic digitization.   This goal is also
international in scope, and will capitalize on new working relationships
already initiated with several digital centers in Russia and other East
European countries.

The successful applicant will have a humanities PhD in the Slavic field,
some technology preparation, and a knowledge of Russian.  Proficiency in
another Slavic or East European language is also welcome.
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............................................
Miranda Beaven Remnek
Head, Slavic & East European Library
Professor of Library Administration
225A Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
Tel. 217.333.1340
Net. mremnek at uiuc.edu

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