Posted for Michael Buckland (buckland@ISchool.Berkeley.EDU). Please excuse cross postings, and feel free to distribute.
The Information Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces an opening for the newly created Martin and Bernard Breslauer Chair in Bibliography (see http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/jobs/breslauer_announcement.pdf ). Endowed Chairs at UCLA are reserved for distinguished scholars and teachers at the Full Professor level. It is expected that the Breslauer Professor will contribute to the long-standing leadership and innovation in all areas of bibliography of the Information Studies Department, here understood to include: the study of the collection and description of books and other textual works; the study of the production and use of textual works as physical objects; and the history of the book, of book arts, and of print culture. Emergent areas in which the Department is also interested include: the history of transitions from print to digital formats, and of the impact of such transitions on the book arts, on publishing and access systems, and on reading; the design of bibliographic systems that offer scholars in the arts and humanities access to creative and intellectual works; and approaches to the study of bibliographic collection and description that are informed by artistic and humanistic perspectives. For more information, see our website: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/.
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.