Mark Andrews wrote:
>As I tried to say earlier (I think my post was either gobbled up or
ignored, but oh well), "And who will help me bake this bread?" asked the
Little Red Hen. Is Brandies or Cal or anybody else going to buck up for
this?
It's early in the morning, so I haven't though this through. But what
about library schools? Here are institutions with maybe the most vested
interest of all in the future of librarianship. Here are institutions
full of enthusiastic people who are willing to work for experience and
name recognition rather than money. Here are library-centered
institutions that probably have access to a pool of computer science
geeks right on campus.
Is there some way to harness all those enthusiasts and geeks to a
project like Evergreen? Or to a bunch of similar, even competing
projects? Maybe give them an internship or course credit or something
else to entice them? (Note: Library students really like free food and
coffee.)
The next time your library went to hire a geek, wouldn't you be
impressed by a new librarian, fresh out of school, who had worked on the
development of an ILS? Even one that wasn't NextGen, even one that
wasn't exactly finished?
Joe Montibello
Class of 1945 Library
Phillips Exeter Academy
Received on Fri Jun 23 2006 - 09:49:16 EDT