In the great growing tradition of 21st century political debate, I will avoid the questions in this thread entirely, and "pivot" to points that I personally find gratifying to discuss, as I'm enjoying the observations of others:

1.) For the record, though I've never been to New Zealand (still waiting my invite... ahem), I found Stuart's email a wonderfully self-conscious allusion to C4L's "the answer is technology" personality that (at times) emerges. (And +2 points for the double entendre Internet2 pun--intentional or not). I guess it's true that email does not adequately convey tongueness-in-cheek

2.) Ditto to what Charles says..., plus

3.) More than once, the C4L jobs I've found out about jobs my own organization was posting from this list that were a surprise to me. (Left hand, meet right hand!)

4.) More than once, I've found out from the C4L jobs feed that our own HR system has successfully posted a position in my own department. Yes, this can take weeks, and no, our "awesome" HR system doesn't have an internal email notification system

5.) Charles--did you say you were interested in a linked data position at Stanford, or know someone who is? Call me! : ) 

- Tom




On May 7, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Charles Blair wrote:

> I don't mind having them both in the same feed. They're easy enough to
> tell apart even w/o a filter. The reason I say this is that when I see
> something like "Job: Digital Assets Librarian", or " Job: Linked Data
> Technologist, Metadata at Stanford University", just to pick two at
> random, that's a good way for me (as a hiring manager) to see what new
> kinds of positions are being posted (as opposed to those I'm already
> familiar with), what new responsibilities they might entail, how a
> position might be pitched in a new way, or, as in the case of
> Stanford, what in particular they (as a leader in some of the sorts of
> things I care about) might be up to. At the very least it adds useful
> pieces to my current awareness in a convenient way, but it also has
> the potential of influencing how we define the next position we post
> here, and since we would like to hire from the community, it has
> potential benefit for the community as well. Of course, I'm speaking
> for myself, but in case this is a potentially useful perspective, that
> some others might hold as well, I post it.
> 
> -- 
> Charles Blair, Director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library
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