The first issue of Conversants, a journal focused on participatory networks, came out on Friday, and it features an editorial by Andrea Mercado, “Making Library Schools Smarter.” Mercado touches on a lot of the things I’ve been thinking about lately: The fact that librarianship requires higher level computer skills, and the unfortunate fact that library [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Conversants and more stuff about library school students
Posted in technology on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Where are all the techies?
Posted in library school, technology on March 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been contemplating this question since I started library school last semester, when I was enrolled in my program’s basic technology course, the only technology course students are required to take. Where are all the next system designers and OPAC developers and library tech programmers? They certainly weren’t in my class.
Lately it seems a [...]
