Bob, are you looking to do things that have never been done before, or are you looking to assemble new-to-you things from pre-existing tools?
I'm another in the self-taught bunch of Systems Librarians, and there's a pretty significant gap between the skills needed to assemble a website out of Drupal and the skills needed to write a new EZproxy replacement. "Developer" encompasses a really broad array of skills. Regards, Brett Williams On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Samson, Bob <sam...@uta.edu> wrote: > I have a question regarding staff development and I am hoping someone can > provide some advice. I have two vacant librarian positions in my Library > Systems department. I need to fill those vacancies with software/systems > developers in order to move our initiatives forward. We have encountered > reluctance on the part of our human resources to repurpose those librarian > positions into developer positions. > > Has anyone had success in posting Systems Librarian positions using > education and experience requirements consistent with software developers? > We have sufficient flexibility in hiring librarians, but the skill sets > differ significantly between librarians and developers. Ideally, we would > want someone with backgrounds in computer science rather than library > science, for example. I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this and > been successful. > > Bob Samson > Head of Library Systems & Technology > University of Texas at Arlington >
