[Corpora-List] Job Vacancies: 2 Professorial Chairs-Sheffield University Dept Info Studies

[Mark Sanderson]

Apologies for cross posting.

The Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield
is pleased to announce that it is seeking appointments for two new
Chairs in Information Retrieval and in Librarianship and Information
Management.

The Department of Information Studies has received the highest possible
grades in all Research Assessment Exercises to date (5*A in 2001),
a feat not achieved by any other comparable department in the UK,
and was graded as 'Excellent' in the Teaching Quality Assessment.

Chair in Information Retrieval
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Applications are invited for a Chair in Information Retrieval.
The appointee will have an international research standing in
information retrieval and/or a related area such as digital libraries,
information extraction and multimedia. The appointee will be
expected to contribute to a portfolio of undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes in Information Systems, Information
Management and Librarianship, and to participate at a strategic
level in the development of the research and teaching activities
of this dynamic and successful interdisciplinary Department.

Informal enquiries about this post may be directed to
Professor Micheline Beaulieu. Tel. +44 (0)114 2222640
Email: m.beaulieu at sheffield.ac.uk

Chair in Librarianship and Information Management
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Applications are invited for a Chair in Librarianship and
Information Management. The appointee will contribute to the
Department's undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
programmes and to the work of the Library and Information
Management Research Group, and will also be expected to play
a major part in the continued development of the Department's
Centre for the Public Library and Information in Society.
Research interests are welcome in any aspect of library and
information management, but preference may be given to applicants
who can contribute to the Department's work in some or all of
the following areas: Academic, public, and workplace library
and information services; Libraries, information and society;
Value and impact of library and information services;
Management of library and information services.  The appointee
will have extensive academic or operational experience that,
coupled with an international standing in the library and information
world, will enable him/her to enhance links both within and beyond
the University, particularly with practitioners, professional and
other relevant organizations.

Informal enquiries about this post may be directed to
Professor Bob Usherwood. Tel. +44 (0)114 2222635
Email: r.usherwood at sheffield.ac.uk

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Further details about both these posts are available from
the Department's website:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/news/jobs/jobs.html

Closing Date for both posts: 6th September 2002
Salary: to be negotiated

For details about how to apply for these posts please contact:
Personnel Services, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)114 2221631  Fax: +44 (0)114 2221624.
More information can also be obtained from the University of Sheffield
Personnel Services website at http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/adc


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Mark Sanderson, Room 303                   Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22648
Department of Information Studies          Fax: +44 (0) 114 27 80300
University of Sheffield, Regent Court,     mailto:m.sanderson at shef.ac.uk
211 Portobello St., Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK  http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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