19.192 job in e-publishing at Penn

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 192.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

         Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:21:19 +0100
         From: Humanist Discussion Group <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: job in e-publishing at the University of Pennsylvania

                              Position Available

          Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
                 University of Pennsylvania Library

The University of Pennsylvania Library is=20
presently seeking a bright, creative individual=20
with a solid background in humanities computing=20
to guide and manage its electronic publishing=20
unit, The Schoenberg Center for Text & Image (SCETI).

SCETI (dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti) was=20
created in 1996 to produce virtual facsimiles of=20
rare and special materials from Penn's=20
collections. Over the years, SCETI has evolved=20
into a fully integrated electronic library=20
containing digital versions printed books,=20
manuscripts, correspondences, images, and most recently recorded sound.
SCETI's projects have ranged from Shakespeare,=20
medieval Judaica, and the traditions of alchemy=20
to ancient papyri, the works of Theodore Dreiser,=20
and the spoken word. In 1998 SCETI received an=20
NEH Challenge Grant, which was successfully=20
met. SCETI collaborates on the Penn campus with=20
faculty and academic units and internationally=20
with institutions across North America and=20
beyond. The SCETI web site is a destination stop=20
for humanities scholars from around the world.

Potential candidates are invited to submit a=20
letter of application which addresses the needs=20
and qualifications of the position, along with=20
their r=E9sum=E9 and the names, addresses and phone=20
numbers of three references who can address the=20
suitability of the candidate for the position=20
described, to: Robert Eash, Human Resources=20
Officer, University of Pennsylvania Library, 3420=20
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 or=20
email to: reash_at_pobox.upenn.edu <mailto:reash_at_pobox.upenn.edu>.

Michael Ryan
Director, Rare Books & Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Library
Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 01:34:34 EDT