IT is certainly important to today's library. However, so is marketing
and grant writing and fund-raising. Arguing that all libraries should
have an IT person is like saying they should all have a marketing person
and a grant writing person and a fund-raiser. That makes already 4
full-timers and no core library functions are being done.
Larger libraries have the ability to make decisions about allocating
funds between IT, marketing, grant writing, fund-raising and all the
other important functions. Smaller libraries don't. A large number of
libraries don't even have 4 full time staff. A library with only a
techie, marketer, grant writer, and fund-raiser would not be serving the
community very well.
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigwood_at_gmail.com
http://catalogablog.blogspot.com
Twitter: LPI_Library
Received on Wed Sep 10 2008 - 10:46:08 EDT