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Rec'd with tech glitch. --gw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:27:53 -0400 From: Brett Bonfield <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Too Many Library Jobs As an interesting counterpoint to the Forbes scare [1], it's worth noting that a few areas within the library profession appear to have so many jobs that it's difficult to keep up with all of the postings. The code4lib community -- a community of programmers, designers, archivists, and others interested in library technology -- collaboratively runs a mailing list, IRC channel, journal, and conference, along with a few other projects. One of those projects, put together recently by LOC's Ed Summers, is code4lib jobs [2], a program that automatically pulls relevant job postings from multiple sources and re-posts them to the code4lib mailing list. A complaint posted yesterday to the ~2,000 member, fairly active code4lib mailing list: "It's all job postings!" https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1208&L=CODE4LIB&T=0&F=&S=&P=11434 For follow-up responses by other mailing list members, select "Next in Topic" near the top-left of the screen. As Ed Summers points out a few posts in, a "goal of jobs.code4lib.org is to help document the skills and jobs that are in demand, to help educators teach their students relevant skills so that they can find jobs." Brett Brett Bonfield PhD student, Rutgers University [1] http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45ifij/no-1-worst-masters-degree-for-jobs-library-and-information-science/ [2] http://jobs.code4lib.org/