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Just for fun, I did some at-scale reading of the job postings sent to the Code4Lib mailing list. More specifically, I wanted to know what adjectives were in the position descriptions and whether there have changes in the descriptions over time. To this end, I first topic modeled the postion descriptions dating between 2015 and 2019, and three very broad themes presented themselves: 1) digital research services, 2) experience with systems and the Web, and 3) digital collections & metadata. From year to year, these themes seem to be equally proportioned; I don't think the desired qualities/responsibilities of "systems librarians" have changed very much in the past five years. Next, I extracted all of the adjectives from all of the position descriptions and merely did a frequency count against the result. I did this for all five years of content (roughly 2,500 postings), and the differences between each year seemed negligible. Here is a list of the most frequent adjectives from the postings: digital, new, other, technical, professional, such, academic, strong, more, open, full, excellent, responsible, current, diverse, best, related, relevant, public, collaborative, scholarly, successful, electronic, innovative, online, national, equivalent, strategic, complex, wide, appropriate, demonstrated, repository, effective, creative, social, interpersonal, organizational, cultural, special, multiple, available, advanced, oral, institutional, various, high, subject Similarly, here are the adverbs: well, as, also, not, effectively, closely, e.g., collaboratively, independently, highly, actively, online, up, at, least, currently, most, out, approximately, directly, especially, strongly, preferably, particularly, only, more, here, forward, on, immediately, rapidly, together, successfully, primarily, fully, quickly, creatively, regularly, newly, additionally, locally, just, in, internationally, prior, fast, clearly, culturally, progressively Finally, what are the desired candidates expected to actually do (the verbs): work, include, provide, develop, support, bring, have, require, manage, use, demonstrate, apply, visit, maintain, relate, post, seek, serve, base, create, ensure, write, implement, lead, report, need, perform, participate, make, offer, build, learn, collaborate, meet, emerge, help, contribute, accredit, identify, assist, coordinate, prefer, encourage, improve, exist, integrate, submit, do I suppose that if your annual review includes words from the three sets above, then you are dong a good job. If you want to dig deeper, then see the individual "study carrels" where all this data can be gleaned -> http://carrels.distantreader.org -- Eric Lease Morgan Digital Initiatives Librarian, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Hesburgh Libraries University of Notre Dame 250E Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 o: 574-631-8604 e: [log in to unmask] w: cds.library.nd.edu