What skills, tech-specific and not, have been most important?
It is pretty difficult, near impossible to work in library technology and not have good tech skills. I think one thing that has made me successful is the well-roundedness of my library tech background. This wasn’t intentional but happenstance of working in a smaller library. Knowing something about all different kinds of library systems makes it easier to bring together data and interfaces across systems. Project management skills are essential for someone in my type of job. When I worked at a smaller library it was more an issue of managing my own time. At a bigger librarian though, if you can’t run the project chaos ensues. I had some training in this area, but it was sufficient compared to the real world experience. On the tech end of things, I could list a bunch of acronyms but really the most important thing is to have the ability to learn constantly, particularly new programming languages. One does necessarily have to be fluent just understand what is going on in the code. If I h
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