On May 6, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: >> Hello everyone. The recent thread asking people what they would like to >> learn if they had the time brought another question to my mind. If you were >> looking to get into "this side" of the profession, what would you recommend >> focusing on? > > I hope you don't interpret this as a glib throwaway, but the best > answer I've seen so far was blogged by Dan Chudnov a while back. Here > it is: > > http://onebiglibrary.net/story/advice-to-a-library-school-student
Similarly, I wrote a piece for the LITA Blog a few years ago that might be relevant -- http://bit.ly/hGqNm1 In a nutshell, it advocates learning: * XML * relational databases * computer-aided indexing * programming/scripting HTH -- Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Projects Librarian Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
