[Air-l] Faculty opening in LIS

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Faculty Positions

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks outstanding full-time 
faculty to join our unique, top-ranked program.  Preference will be given 
to applicants with strong research and teaching credentials in (1) 
organization of information (knowledge representation, 
cataloging/classification, indexing/abstracting, etc.), or (2) technical 
aspects of information retrieval and digital libraries.  The School will 
consider exceptionally strong applicants working in other areas of library 
and information science or related disciplines.

The GSLIS faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in library 
science, information science, communications, computer science, education, 
history of science, philosophy, and sociology, and we have been the number 
one ranked School of Library and Information Science for many years.  The 
faculty pursue a wide variety of research projects in areas such as 
distributed knowledge, library history, information and telecommunications 
policy, inquiry-based education, biodiversity informatics, youth services, 
children's literature, music information retrieval, digital libraries, 
document standards, electronic books and e-publishing, computer-supported 
collaborative work and collaborative learning, museum informatics, 
community networks, internet studies, and more.  GSLIS research funding is 
approximately $3 million per year and growing.  Faculty and students are 
also involved in many interdisciplinary research initiatives across the 
campus, and are affiliated with units such as the Department of Computer 
Science, Illinois Natural History Survey, the Beckman Institute, Institute 
for Communications Research, Computational Science and Engineering Program, 
and National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

The School offers Master's, Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and 
Doctoral programs, as well as an innovative undergraduate minor in 
Information Technology Studies and a new LIS K-12 Media Specialist 
Certification Program.  The School's unique LEEP online education option 
for the Master's and CAS degrees incorporates a variety of technologies and 
focuses on ways to involve remote students in all aspects of professional 
education.  New faculty will have the opportunity to teach in all these 
programs.

The School hosts several units that support teaching, research and 
service.  Our new Information Systems Research Laboratory (ISRL) provides a 
state-of-the-art environment supporting research for all GSLIS 
faculty.  The Library Research Center supports faculty research and fosters 
a strong working relationship with the professional communities.  The 
Center for Children's Books produces a premier review journal and has an 
expanding program for librarians and teachers.  Information Researchers is 
a professional information service offering custom research.  Prairienet, a 
widely-known community computing network, originated in the School.

Visiting and/or tenure track appointments made under this announcement will 
be effective August 21, 2003.  Visiting appointments may become tenure 
track appointments at a future date.  To ensure full consideration, 
applications must be received by January 27, 2003.  Rank is open and salary 
is commensurate with experience.  A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required, 
though we will consider candidates who are close to completion of the 
doctoral degree.  Information about GSLIS, its programs, and its 
environment can be found on the internet at   Nominations, letters of 
application (including a current resume and three letters of reference), or 
requests for further information should be sent to:

Professor Linda C. Smith
c/o Dorlene Clark, Assistant to the Dean
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820-6211
phone: (217) 333-3281; fax: (217) 244-3302; email:
The University of Illinois is an AA-EOE.

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Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn at uiuc.edu)
Associate Professor, and Interim Associate Dean
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, 
IL, 61820
phone: 217-244-7453     fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn
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