Hi folks -
What do you include in orientation when you hire a programmer
(excellent, experienced, of course), who isn't familiar with
library-land? MARC is a given, ditto the ILS, plus e-resource
management back end (OpenURL parsers, proxies and the like). From
those of you who came into libraries for other industries: what do
you wish you knew about libraries, library/info science, and library
operations when you began? I'm especially interested in anything which
gave you an "ah-ha!" moment when you were working with library data --
the implicit things which didn't make sense until you knew why those
crazy librarians did things the way they did. Also - which resources
were particularly valuable to you as you gained familiarity with your
new environment?
Your insight is deeply appreciated,
Laura J. Smart
Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library
laura_at_library.caltech.edu/laura.j.smart_at_gmail.com
Received on Wed Jul 20 2011 - 12:05:35 EDT