I'm a librarian, and a slightly poor excuse for a coder second. I've always focussed on the IT/tech side of librarianship in my career and did at one point cross from libraries into more general IT management - then firmly put myself back into libraries. To a certain extent I left library employment to freelance as a consultant to get out of the academic library career path that kept taking me into management - which I realised, after several years doing it, was just not what got me out of bed in the morning.

There is a name for people without an MLS who can still quote MARC subfields or write MODS XML freehand. http://shambrarian.org :)


Owen Stephens
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On 7 Jul 2014, at 15:36, Miles Fidelman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This recent spate of message leads me to wonder: How many folks here who "code for libraries" have a library science degree/background, vs. folks who come from other backgrounds?  What about folks who end up in technology management/direction positions for libraries?
> 
> Personally: Computer scientist and systems engineer, did some early Internet-in-public library deployments, got to write a book about it.  Not actively doing library related work at the moment.
> 
> Miles Fidelman
> 
> 
> Dot Porter wrote:
>> I'm a medieval manuscripts curator who codes, in Philadelphia, and I'd be
>> happy to talk to you as well.
>> 
>> Dot
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:30 AM, David Mayo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you'd like to talk to someone who did a library degree, and currently
>>> works as a web developer supporting an academic library, I'd be happy to
>>> talk with you.
>>> 
>>> - Dave Mayo
>>>   Software Engineer @ Harvard > HUIT > LTS
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Steven Anderson <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jennie,
>>>> As with others, I'm not a librarian as I lack a library degree, but I do
>>>> Digital Repository Development for the Boston Public Library
>>> (specifically:
>>>> https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/). Feel free to let me know you want
>>>> to chat for your masters paper.
>>>> Sincerely,Steven AndersonWeb Services - Digital Library Repository
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> 
>>>>> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:51:07 +0000
>>>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Let me shadow you, librarians who code!
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Jennie,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm waaay south of MA but I'm pretty addicted to talking about coding
>>> as
>>>> a library job O_o. If you are still in want of guinea-pigs, I'd love to
>>>> skype / hangout.
>>>>> Michael Schofield
>>>>> // [log in to unmask]
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>>> Of
>>>> Jennie Rose Halperin
>>>>> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 3:58 PM
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Let me shadow you, librarians who code!
>>>>> 
>>>>> hey Code4Lib,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you work in a library and also like coding?  Do you do coding as
>>> part
>>>> of your job?
>>>>> I'm writing my masters paper for the University of North Carolina at
>>>> Chapel Hill and I'd like to shadow and interview up to 10 librarians and
>>>> archivists who also work with code in some way in the Boston area for the
>>>> next two weeks.
>>>>> I'd come by and chat for about 2 hours, and the whole thing will not
>>>> take up too much of your time.
>>>>> Not in Massachusetts?  Want to skype? Let me know and that would be
>>>> possible.
>>>>> I know that this list has a pretty big North American presence, but I
>>>> will be in Berlin beginning July 14, and could potentially shadow anyone
>>> in
>>>> Germany as well.
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jennie Rose Halperin
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra