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jobs.code4lib.org was analyzed for an LIS education article, just published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science: Maceli, Monica. (2015). Creating tomorrow’s technologists: Contrasting information technology curriculum in north american library and information science graduate programs against code4lib job listings. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 198-212. doi:10.12783/issn.2328-2967/56/3/ http://dpi-journals.com/index.php/JELIS/article/view/1523/1357 This research study explores technology-related course offerings in ALA-accredited library and information science (LIS) graduate programs in North America. These data are juxtaposed against a text analysis of several thousand LIS-specific technology job listings from the Code4lib jobs website. Starting in 2003, as a popular library technology mailing list, Code4lib has since expanded to an annual conference in the United States and a job-posting website. The study found that database and web design/development topics continued to dominate course offerings with diverse sub-topics covered. Strong growth was noted in the area of user experience but a lack of related jobs for librar-ians was identified. Analysis of the job listings revealed common technology-centric librarian and non-librarian job titles, as well as frequently correlated requirements for technology skillsets relating to the popular foci of web design/development and meta-data. Finally, this study presents a series of suggestions for LIS educators in order that they continue to keep curriculum aligned with current technology employment requirements. It's nice to see secondary use of all the job posts we've been collecting! (and thanks Ed, who's acknowledge in the paper, for sharing the data to make this happen.)