Re: Seeking Advice: Switching Career Paths

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:16:32 -0400
>From: Will Kurt <wkurtbbn.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Seeking Advice: Switching Career
Paths  
>To: "David Kemper" <siansleepgmail.com>, web4lib <web4libwebjunction.org>
>
>Although I'm not a Web Services / Web Development
Librarian, I do run 
>a library job site in my spare time, so I do a fair
amount of web 
>development work and also see around a thousand library
job postings 
>a year.   My 2 cents are:
>
>Jon makes some good points, although I fully believe
that you (and 
>everyone who's posted) can get a web librarian job if
you want 
>it.  Too frequently libraries want an unreasonable
number of 
>qualifications for an equally unreasonable low pay. I
could rant 
>volumes about this, but needless to say I think it's a
poor practice.
>

I suppose I should clarify my statement about not getting a
web design position.  I think it would be nearly impossible
to get a pure web design job as a full time regular position
in a library.  If the graphical art side of the job is
really what you enjoy and don't want to work with the
programming/database type stuff, it's not likely to happen. 
On the other hand, if you're willing to branch out to the
web developer and database side it's much more feasible.  To
even round it out more, some knowledge of usability testing
and managing life-cycles would be useful to pick up.

Jon Gorman
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