Hello CITAMS colleagues -- I wanted to let everyone know about a new position we are searching for in Information Studies at UCLA. A brief description and a link to the full position announcement are included below. Please feel free to distribute widely to all interested students and colleagues! If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with me. Leah Lievrouw =========================== The Department of Information Studies of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA invites applications for a *tenure-track assistant professor of information studies specializing in Media Archival Studies* (MAS). The Department of Information Studies’ MAS specialization focuses on the full range of historical to contemporary media-making contexts and formats and the unique challenges they pose, from 19th-century optical and sound-recording devices to today’s emerging sound, image, video, and multiplatform/ transmedia formats. The successful applicant will have research and teaching interests in information studies that relate to any aspect of media archival studies and the range of relevant media formats, materials, and systems, both digital and analog. For complete information about this position, please see the full announcement: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/media/MediaArchive_job.pdf -- Leah A. Lievrouw, Professor Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles 216 GSE&IS Building | Box 951520 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 Tel +1 310 825 1840 Fax +1 310 206 4460 Email llievrou@ucla.edu http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/llievrou/LeahLievrouw/Welcome.html