TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S) LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S)
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

The Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey, seeks applications from scholars conducting innovative research in the areas of health informatics, data science, and/or interaction and design in digital environments who value a climate of cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges.

Health Informatics

In anticipation of the merger of Rutgers University with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers welcomes applicants with background and research interests overlapping Information Science and Health Informatics, including but not limited to:

•       Health information and communication technologies from the health provider (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals) and/or consumer perspective;
•       Technology-based interventions to improve public health through wellness promotion;
•       Innovative research in designing technologies to support healthy living of an aging population;
•       Research oriented in health applications through advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach, knowledge integration, mobile technologies, or novel user interface designs.

Data Science

The phenomenon of “big data” is spreading in both industry and academia.  We seek researchers with interests including but not limited to:

•       New technologies for analytics, modeling and visualization;
•       New methods for collaboration with working scientists to further scientific analysis;
•       Innovative research on the process of moving data to repositories, curation, management, and exploiting/mining the data;
•       Explorations of questions involving policy, ethics, and related aspects of large data collections;
•       Users of “big data” including information seeking, user education and preferences; communication with other users and with systems, and techniques for users to exploit/mine data.

Interaction and Design in Digital Environments

Individuals and groups interact with one another in a variety of digital environments, and understanding the relationship between these interactions and the spaces in which they occur is a new concern.  We encourage applicants with expertise including but not limited to:


•       User experience design in large-scale social networks;
•       Design of systems to support collaboration and interaction at a variety of scales, from small groups to large-scale social networks;
•       Understanding information and communication behaviors in large-scale digital environments.

Qualified applicants to the Department of Library and Information Science studying one or more of these areas are invited to apply for a faculty position.   Our department is ranked 6th in the United States among Library and Information Science programs by U. S. News & World Report.

The scholarship of successful candidates will connect to one or more of the four problem-based research foci that have guided our school’s hiring in recent years: health and wellness; global media and democracy; organizations, policy, and leadership; and social media interaction & collaboration. We especially seek candidates from under-represented groups who would further our commitment to scholarly excellence and community diversity.  For more information about the Department of Library and Information Science and the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, including school-wide research interests and active faculty searches in the school’s Communication and Journalism and Media Studies departments, see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field no later than May 2013.   The ideal applicant’s program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding.  Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate’s fit to specific departmental and school-wide research interests.  Duties of the successful applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching in the candidate’s field of scholarship, an active program of research in the candidate’s area of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for tenure-track appointments.

Submissions: Applications may be submitted beginning November 2, 2012 and must be received no later than December 1, 2012.  Submit to: http://its.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/facultysearch/. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references (no letters at this time please). Please do not submit applications to more than one department.  If you see a potential fit in more than one department please indicate this in your application letter.

Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America.  The School of Communication and Information is a founding member of the iSchools Caucus. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates. As evidence of that, among peer public institutions (public universities in the Association of American Universities), Rutgers is 4th in the nation for full-time female faculty, 14th in the nation for full-time African-American faculty, and 15th in the nation for full-time total minority faculty. Among those same schools Rutgers ranks 2nd in the percentage of degrees earned by African Americans, 8th for Asians, and 11th for Latinos.