Clarification of on/off topic on Web4Lib

>From the Web4Lib advisory board: just to be clear, the
post labeled
"Offtopic: Interviewing and Hiring a Web
Developer" is perfectly ON topic. 

(From me personally: if you're lucky enough to find a good
developer at
library pay scales, I wouldn't get too clever with the
stump-the-dummy
questions.)

K.G. Schneider
Free Range Librarian
AIM/Email: kgsfreerangelibrarian.com
http://freerangelibrari
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At 04:29 PM 6/29/2007, K.G. Schneider wrote:
> >From the Web4Lib advisory board: just to be clear,
the post labeled
>"Offtopic: Interviewing and Hiring a Web
Developer" is perfectly ON topic.
>
>(From me personally: if you're lucky enough to find a
good developer at
>library pay scales, I wouldn't get too clever with the
stump-the-dummy
>questions.)

How would you go about determining whether a web developer
is good 
unless you present challenging questions?

I am not sure what library pay scales are but at least at
the 
university where I work a web developer can expect to be
offered the 
same salary whether going to work in one of the libraries,
at the law 
school, engineering school, etc.  If one can't find a good
developer 
by offering lower salaries it would seem to me that offering
a salary 
that is competitive with what any other employer in the area
might 
offer might be a good approach.


>K.G. Schneider
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John Fereira
jaf30cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY 

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