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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 > 1 773 702 8459 | [log in to unmask] | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~chas/