Mar
27
TechEssence has an interesting topic on Librarians and technical projects. The article itself sounds interesting and well thought out, but the article was purposefully vague. Technology or technical projects can take up an enormously broad range of qualities and specifications, and I believe they were simply realizing there's a barrier with many librarians when it comes to anything technical, or technology related.
Now, what about those of us with the job of, oh...completely revamping a website and having all the staff who know about web-related things but don't understand the complexity in creating them. They know enough to be dangerous, but I'm not entirely sure I can educate them on exactly all the work that goes in to it -- and I am the only one behind the web development, web server control, etc...plus I run around helping people clear out their junk/bulk mail folders. So, perhaps there's more problem here than meets the eye, but...this seems like the article assumes or presumes there's a team behind all of this, not just a single person with a team of people coming at him or her.
Oh, the article really is well written. You should go read it and see what you get from it as it can be useful for any organization, not just libraries but any team with non-technically minded individuals.
Now, what about those of us with the job of, oh...completely revamping a website and having all the staff who know about web-related things but don't understand the complexity in creating them. They know enough to be dangerous, but I'm not entirely sure I can educate them on exactly all the work that goes in to it -- and I am the only one behind the web development, web server control, etc...plus I run around helping people clear out their junk/bulk mail folders. So, perhaps there's more problem here than meets the eye, but...this seems like the article assumes or presumes there's a team behind all of this, not just a single person with a team of people coming at him or her.
Oh, the article really is well written. You should go read it and see what you get from it as it can be useful for any organization, not just libraries but any team with non-technically minded individuals.
