Hiring Librarians

[guthery at austin.sar.slb.com]

I've been on the otherside of trying to hire librarians.  We've realized that
we need library science people to do technology watch and to organize our
Intranet.

1) I've been greeted with a very, very cold shoulder by many library
   science departments when I've come calling 

2) many library science people don't see that "net books" are just
   like real books and need the same care and attention ... even more so
   and maybe with fresh approaches

3) many library science people want to "bunkerize" classical libraries
   rather than mix them in with the web

4) many library science people shy away from jobs with a high
   communication component

5) there are few courses in "off the shelf" library science curriculums
   which deal with serving from and organizing web-based information

It shouldn't surprise people that the going rate for even the best buggy whip
maker isn't what it used to be.

Cheers, Scott