Hello,
When I think of IT and Librarianship I don't see a huge difference. I see
librarianship as IT without in depth computer skills. I see IT as
Librarianship without concern for teaching and access but major concerns about
security.
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On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:18 PM,
Hi Cornel,
Do IT librarians not teach staff how to use new software? Do IT librarians
not provide digital access? I have done three major software upgrades this
calendar year alone, all of which included a significant amount of teaching
staff how to use our new ILS, for example. And who knows the
Good Morning,
I'm happy to have stumbled upon this conversation this morning. I think IT
Librarians or Directors of IT in the library need to be both IT
professional and librarian. Yes, there is the every day upkeep of the
public and staff workstations and printers and myriad other technologies.
I know a lot gets said (here and elsewhere) about Technology for Librarians
- important skills and standards, what's
important/useful/trending/ignorable, and the like. But I'd love to start a
discussion (or join one, if it already exists elsewhere) about the other
side of things - the
On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote:
I think some of these issues are distractions as they aren't specific to
libraries, aren't really different than any IT work involving private
information (i.e. virtually all IT work), and don't require library
Hi all,
I was talking this afternoon with a friend of mine about what makes a good
Director of Library IT. Does the job lie more within librarianship or IT?
(Depends on the library.) Is there a natural separation between the
Library IT of ILS/MARC/e-resource/circ. technology maintenance and the
Hi Micheal,
You present some interesting questions. I think the answers you get might
depend entirely on what you define as the role of librarians in IT. For
instance, yes library IT professionals do have a role in PC support in
libraries, and sadly printing still takes up a lot of our time.
I think Craig's comment about technologists in libraries needing to
understand how patrons gather and consume information points to something a
little bit bigger: most libraries differ from traditional IT companies in
that there are far fewer people to work on large tech projects. So
technologists
