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Subject:         GIS Job Opening at UIUC Library
Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:21:53 -0500
From:   Lura Joseph <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps-L



The University of Illinois Library is seeking an energetic and creative
person to serve as the lead in the Library’s collection and delivery of
digital geospatial data and associated geographic information systems
(GIS) services. The GIS Librarian will coordinate all aspects of the
Library’s digital geospatial information program at the intersection of
user needs, technology, and data content. Creating a portal to
geospatial data, the GIS Librarian will move the profession and services
offered from traditional map librarianship towards geoinformatics with
an increased interest in modeling geospatial data and in techniques
applied to geospatial information systems for data management,
retrieval, and analysis. Provides reference service, research
assistance, and instruction in the selection and possible uses of
digital geospatial data through in-person and remote one-on-one
interactions, workshops/seminars, websites, blogs, and other avenues of
widely distributed communication; works closely with implementers of
Learning Commons and Scholarly Commons to incorporate and support
geospatial analysis tools and data in the suites of commons’ offerings.

For an electronic version of the full job announcement see:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/administration/human/positions/facprof.htm

Posted by
Lura Joseph
Geology Librarian, UIUC