Via my advisor, Michael Buckland:

In the 1960s a rare book dealer, Bernard Breslauer, made a bequest to UCLA to establish a Breslauer Chair in Bibliography. He lived on to a ripe old age and only now is the Chair being established in the Department of Information Studies. It is a regular fulltime, full professor position, but with some unusual conditions attached:

• An obligation to collaborate with the rich and varied special collections at UCLA, though the nature and extent of the collaboration is unspecified;
• To occasionally organize workshops or conferences, possibly jointly with others; and
• The fortunate incumbent will have as a personal research fund the interest on a $1.5 million endowment (perhaps $70,000 a year or more, which is not to be used for his/her salary).

The chair is in “Bibliography” but there is ample theoretical and historical justification for interpreting that term broadly to include documents of all genres and any media and to range over subject bibliography and the organization of information. It is not restricted to Historical (aka Analytical) Bibliography, the study of the making of printed books.

It is an exceptional and influential opportunity for the individual, for the department, and for a neglected niche where material culture, digital libraries, and humanities computing converge - but only if the right appointee can be found.

The position description is at http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/jobs/breslauer_announcement.pdf.

Please do not hesitate to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Any help in spreading the word would be appreciated.