On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
>
> To that end I wrote a blog piece for the LITA a couple of years ago, and I
> think it is still relevant today. [1] In summary, the posting advocates
> knowledge of:
>
> * XML - modern-day MARC
> * relational databases - the organization of information
> * indexing - the searching/finding of information
> * Web serving - making the information available
> * programming/scripting - binding all of the above together
>
> In the current environment, each one of these things plays in important role
> in the creation, implementation, maintenance, and use of "next generation"
> library catalogs.
I'm curious if anyone's ever taken a stab at the flipside of a list
like this. In other words, what is the minimum a software engineer
should know about librarianship to be effective in the current
environment?
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Jay Luker
Received on Fri Sep 12 2008 - 04:57:17 EDT