titles at all - you need to know
the local environment.
Deborah
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From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Salazar,
Christina
Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2018 9:24 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?
H
Hi Christina,
I was a little taken aback when I read 'maybe I should not apply for
systems librarian jobs any more since I am not really a full time coder but
more of a "fixer." '
Are you finding that institutions posting vacancies for systems librarians
are expecting full-time coders?
My staff
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:51 AM Carol Kassel wrote:
> .. I know I'd love to hear that
> someone wants to make things better and not just build shiny new things!
>
Amen.
Just as you need to watch out for seagull managers, you also have to be
wary of seagull systems people. A lot of the most
I am a Systems Technician, not a librarian. I have a background in IT, and ran
the library servers before moving into the library.
Most of my work would be considered systems analyst work, maintaining,
troubleshooting, adjusting settings and data manipulation. This is 70-75% of
my work.
I do
Hi,
You've gotten some great replies from techies. I'm a manager-type in a
digital library team, so I thought I'd give you my perspective.
We tend to need people with some coding skills, when we hire. That said,
I'm much more interested in what people have done and how they think than
what their
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:02 PM Salazar, Christina <
christina.sala...@csuci.edu> wrote:
> I think a part of why I'm asking is it seems sometimes (oftentimes?) the
> folks who are doing the hiring or job postings don't really KNOW what all
> is involved in many of the techie type librarian positio
ng the hiring or job postings don't really KNOW what
> all
> >> is involved in many of the techie type librarian positions and so I
> often
> >> see job postings that seem to throw in all kinds of stuff and it's hard
> to
> >> tell how much emphasis would b
7, 2018 8:51 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?
Hi Christine,
I just got my first professional appointment after being out of library school
for 18 months (exactly how long I was warned it would take). My title is
Systems and Educat
lly KNOW what
> all
> >> is involved in many of the techie type librarian positions and so I
> often
> >> see job postings that seem to throw in all kinds of stuff and it's hard
> to
> >> tell how much emphasis would be placed on say writing code or
>
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Gem Stone-Logan
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 3:52 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?
Hi,
Long-time lurker appearing . . .
This is an interesting question to me because I considered systems
librarian t
> tell how much emphasis would be placed on say writing code or maintaining
> systems.
>
> - Christina
>
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> Gem Stone-Logan
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>
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?
Hi,
Long-time lurker appearing . . .
This is an interesting question to me because I considered systems librarian to
be its own thing. My official job titles have been IT Application Engineer,
Technology Librari
Hi,
Long-time lurker appearing . . .
This is an interesting question to me because I considered systems
librarian to be its own thing. My official job titles have been IT
Application Engineer, Technology Librarian, and Systems Librarian but
I always introduced myself in the library world as a sy
Hi Christina,
Like you, my title is Systems Librarian, though the tasks I end up
performing are widely varied. Where I perhaps diverge from your experience
is that I do quite a bit of coding, both developing new things but also
very much "fixing broken things" as you so accurately put it. That may
Hey Everyone,
I'm going to be so old skool about this and ask this question on the mailing
list, but I'm curious to know if you believe your work is more coder/programmer
or systems/applications analyst or project management type work? I'm also
curious about what types of job titles you have th
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