The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks nominations for the 2022 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2023. The award is cosponsored by SAGE Publishing. Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resisted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals to read or view materials of their choice or to hear or express ideas, the award may be in recognition of a particular action or a long-term interest in and dedication to the cause of intellectual freedom. The Downs Award was established in 1969 by the iSchool’s faculty to honor Dean Emeritus Robert B. Downs, a champion of intellectual freedom, on the occasion of his twenty-fifth anniversary as director of the School. Previous winners have included: #FReadom Fighters (TX) and the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (2021) staff for their contributions in the defense of intellectual freedom; Amy Dodson, Director, Douglas County Public Library, Nevada (2020) for supporting the value and necessity of equity, diversity, and inclusion as a part of her library's mission and service.; the Education Justice Project, for its defense of the First Amendment rights of incarcerated individuals (2019); the Iowa Library Association (2018) for taking a leadership role in several highly visible challenges to intellectual freedom; and the Kansas City Public Library (2017) for its defense of a library patron’s First Amendment rights. SAGE Publishing provides an honorarium to the Downs Award recipient and, with the iSchool, co-hosts the reception held in honor of the recipient. The reception and award ceremony for the 2022 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award will take place in June 2023 at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Letters of nomination and documentation about the nominee should be sent by March 15, 2023, to Emily Knox, Chair of the Nominations Selection Committee, by email at knox@illinois.edu with a copy to ischool-dean@illinois.edu. Please email any questions to Emily Knox at knox@illinois.edu. News submitted by Cindy Brya, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences

University of California Berkeley, The iSchool at UC Berkeley Application Deadline: February 16, 2023. The iSchool at UC Berkeley is searching for Assistant Adjunct Professors in Data Science. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. Contact: pmarchetti@ischool.berkeley.edu

National Chengchi University, Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival Studies Application Deadline: March 25, 2023. Academic Qualifications: 1. Professional specialties in Library & Information, Archival Studies & History, Computer Science & Information Engineering, Information Management, Publishing Science & Communication, or closely related fields, with outstanding performance or great potential. 2. Applicants qualified to teach one of the following courses and communication skills in Chinese are preferred: Core courses: Library & Information Science, Information & Knowledge Organization, Archival Management & Applications, Digital Humanities.

Internet Archive Application Deadline: Open until filled. Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy working to ensure a diverse, expansive archive of the digital historical record? Internet Archive is seeking a Program Officer for its Archiving & Data Services team. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library, top 200 website at archive.org, and an archive of over 99 petabytes of digital information running in self-owned and operated data centers. Internet Archive provides mission-aligned services to thousands of organizations, working collaboratively to advance the goal of “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” We are seeking a Program Officer to help grow and expand our work with mission-aligned cultural heritage organizations, researchers, and social good non-profits. The role will primarily work in our Community Programs team. Community Programs priorities include supporting responsible computational engagement with the cultural record (e.g., collections as data, machine learning, text and data mining), providing a range of digital products, services, and collaborations to increase preservation of and access to knowledge (e.g., digital preservation, web archiving) including for under-represented or under-resourced communities, and strengthening memory worker and researcher capacities (e.g., professional development, and stakeholder convening and action). The role will work closely with community, engineering, product, operations, and development teams and conduct significant outreach and coordination with external partners and stakeholders. Other responsibilities include project management, grant management, communications, and working with department staff to support the continuous growth and improvement of our services and partnerships.

National Taiwan Normal University, Graduate Institute of Library & Information Studies Application Deadline: February 28, 2023. Qualifications: (1) Ph.D. in Library Science, Information Science, or a closely related field. (2) Applicants with research expertise and teaching interests in the following areas are preferred: Literacy Education, Reading Education, Trends in Library and Information Research, Library Management, Reference Resources and Services, Information and Knowledge Organization, Information Behavior, Scholarly Communication, Digital Humanities, Social Network Analysis, Digital Marketing, etc. (3) Applicants capable of teaching EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) courses are preferred.

University at Albany, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Application Deadline: Review of applications will start on January 12, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled. The University at Albany, State University of New York, seeks two Associate Professors in Information Sciences and/or Informatics. The new hires will be members of the UAlbany AI Institute. The successful candidates will provide evidence of expertise in AI and address how AI is integral to their research program. The candidates will be hired into the Department of Information Sciences and Technology within the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity (CEHC). These positions will start in the fall of 2023.

University at Albany, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Application Deadline: Review of applications will start on January 12, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled. The Cybersecurity Department in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC) at the University at Albany is seeking applicants at the Assistant Professor level for a tenure track position at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Candidates' research focus within both AI and cybersecurity is open, so long as it involves both topics. The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential to research and teach in the new Cybersecurity department. They should be able to take an integrative approach in working with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds within and outside the department and college. Candidates should show evidence of their commitment to pursuing challenging research problems in cybersecurity and AI. Research that impacts the real world in various contexts, such as business, healthcare, energy & sustainability, critical infrastructure, and government is preferred. CEHC has a goal of creating a dedicated team of researchers and educators capable of enabling our students to successfully explore and interpret the rich array of disciplines and perspectives contained within cybersecurity and allied disciplines.

University at Albany, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity Application Deadline: Review of applications will start on January 12, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled. The University at Albany, State University of New York, seeks a full professor at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The new hire will be a member of the UAlbany AI Institute. The successful candidate will provide evidence of expertise in AI and address how AI is integral to their research program. The candidate will be hired into the Cybersecurity Department in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC). Candidates' research focus within both AI and cybersecurity is open, so long it involves both topics.

University of Sheffield, Information School Application Deadline: January 23, 2023 We seek applications from inspirational leaders who can play a key role in advancing the School’s competitive position in delivering excellent research, high-quality teaching, and outstanding innovation. You will have an outstanding track record of research including an international reputation, publications in highly ranked international journals, substantial success in grant capture, proven skills in academic leadership and management, including team building, and a commitment to interdisciplinary and collaborative research. You will be able to recognise and build on the current research strengths of the School and have the ability to further enhance the next phase of the School’s research and impact profile in your chosen area. A key component of the role will be leadership in research and teaching and mentoring of academic staff in research, publication and income generation activities. You will contribute to our postgraduate programmes, and undergraduate teaching, as appropriate.

Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for presentations to be held at a workshop focused on digital humanities education. The workshop is entitled “Cross-university collaboration in Digital Humanities & Social Science (DHSS) and Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage (DHCH) Education”. It will focus on educational matters in the field and will be held online on March 7. Accepted presentations will be run during the workshop’s open period segment. This workshop is part of the Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Annual Conference, running March 8-10, 2023. For more information on the workshop, please visit: https://lnu.se/en/research/research-groups/digital-humanities/workshop-online-2023/ Proposals should be 300 words in length and are to be submitted to dh.edu.ws@lnu.se by 15 January 2023. Proposals will be reviewed by the workshop organizers. Presenters will be notified of acceptance the following week. The presentations should address a specific topic related to the workshop’s themes. Workshop themes Collaborations/exchanges in digital humanities (DH) instruction Project-based/problem-based DH education Interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary/cross-sectoral/international cooperation in DH education Existing programs, modules or individual courses in DH (e.g., design, target student groups, content, job market, evaluation, experiences, lessons-learned) Currently developed programs, modules or individual courses in DH (e.g., design choices, target student groups, resource management, related issues) Capacity building for student employability Further details on workshop The workshop will allow established and recent DH programs and educational initiatives to report on their experiences, allowing us to form a diverse community of pedagogues to critically discuss topical issues relating to DH education. The DHNB venue encourages participation by teachers, researchers and developers from different perspectives As the sixth workshop on education at DHNB, this year this workshop will focus on higher education in DH, aiming at pedagogical development and infrastructure building. Workshop participants will share their DH teaching experiences, including discussions of strategies, tools, platforms, evaluations, outcomes, and problems. The workshop will also explore a series of initiatives from the DHNB Higher Education Working Group intended to enable collaborative education among fellow universities with DHSS/DHCH programmes/courses/modules. Currently, there are three primary initiatives the Higher Education Working Group which we will address in the workshop’s main session: (1) DHSS/DHCH course exchanges, (2) project-based education, and (3) DHSS/DHCH instruction seminars The intended audience of this workshop are course instructors and programme managers for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) and Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (DHCH) programs; researchers working on DHSS/DHCH education; professionals interested in DHSS/DHCH program, courses, or modules. The workshop is scheduled for March 7, 8:30 – 12:30 (CET) Workshop organizers Ahmad Kamal (contact: ahmad.kamal[at]lnu.se), Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; iInstitute, Linnaeus University, Sweden Jonas Ingvarsson (contact: jonas.ingvarsson[at]lir.gu.se), Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, Faculty of Humanities; University of Gothenburg, Sweden Koraljka Golub, Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities; iInstitute, Linnaeus University, Sweden Isto Huvila, Olle Sköld and Anna Foka Department of ALM (Archival Science, Library & Information Science, and Museum & Heritage Studies), Uppsala University, Sweden Marianne Ping Huang, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark Mikko Tolonen, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland News submitted by Ahmad Kamal, Linnaeus University, iInstitute

University of Michigan, School of Information Application Deadline: March 31, 2023 The Dean is the chief academic and administrative officer of the School of Information, responsible to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs for oversight and quality of the School’s academic and research programs. The Dean of UMSI serves as the chief steward of the School’s vision-setting and strategy implementation and is thus key to UMSI realizing that vision.

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, IU School of Informatics and Computing Application Deadline: January 31, 2023 The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI invites applications for a tenured faculty position to also serve as Executive Associate Dean (EAD). The appointment will begin July 1, 2023 on the IUPUI campus.