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Revision as of 22:31, 28 May 2015
Back to Capacity Building
PLEASE NOTE:
- You CANNOT do good content management without an experienced systems manager/team to support the content team.
- After the system has been built you will require persons who have the following skills to manage the content of the digital repository.
- Recently graduated librarians who are naturally digitally literate are the best candidates for further training in open digital scholarly communications publishing systems.
"Citizens create knowledge – knowledge creates citizens" -Professor Aletta Bonn-
Contents
Example Job Advertisement
The (name of institution) is seeking candidates to fill the positions of director, managers and librarians for the open scholarly communications office.
The candidates should have at least 2 years experience and supply accreditation documentation and an academic publishing history, where applicable.
The minimum required skill sets are listed below.
Please note: These do not reflect the current profiling of competencies and are rather a general guideline that highlights core competencies of all scholarly publishing practitioners.
Director
The director need not be a full time appointment, however someone at the director level should be made responsible.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Doctorate in library or information science.
- Academic journal publication and/or institutional policy development about "open access digital academic publishing".
- Expert understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Professional understanding of digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Familiarity with repository software.
- Familiarity with desktop computer operations.
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
- Familiarity with the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
Example job advert
Operational and Technical Manager
These are full time appointments.
Core Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelors degree in library or information science.
- Major or Masters in "open access digital academic publishing systems".
- Expert understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Expert with digital curation.
- Expert with digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Professional understanding of repository software..
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
- Familiarity with desktop computer operations.
- Familiarity with the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
Specialist Skills
- Expert with the management of Open Research Repository Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Journal Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Conference Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Data Management Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Educational Resource Systems.
Example job advert
Repository and Journal Librarians - 2 each
These are full time appointments.
Core Skills
- Professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Technology certificate in library or information science.
- Major in "open access digital academic publishing systems".
- Expert with repository software.
- Expert with desktop computer operations.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Expert with digital curation.
- Expert with digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Professional understanding of the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
Specialist Skills
- Expert with the operation of Open Research Repository Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Journal Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Conference Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Data Management Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Educational Resource Systems.
Web and Digital Literacy
Due to the internet, it is very difficult to teach information literacy without being web and digitally literate as well.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Computer_Driving_Licence
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy
- http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies
- http://www.icdl.org.za
- https://party.webmaker.org
Technology
The hype cycle.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model
Simple answers to technophobia.
Library Schools
Library Jobs
- https://nasigjobs.wordpress.com
- http://www.liasa.org.za/careers
- http://joblist.ala.org
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/open-access
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/scholarly-communication
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/institutional-repository
Digital Literacy News
- http://www.slideshare.net/CILIP/cilip-digital-inclusion-statement-sept-2014pdf
- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies.aspx
- http://centerforhealthmediapolicy.com/2014/08/21/digital-literacy-may-protect-against-cognitive-decline/
References
Click on the heading above.
