[Web4lib] CMS (Content Management System)

[Cary Gordon]

Good question.

I think that studying CMS software is not as valuable as studying how  
you use the Web to communicate with your constituency. No CMS will  
stop you from building a terrible site, nor do you absolutely need a  
CMS to build a great site (although they can be a big help). In other  
words, the key task is to figure out what your site will do, then  
figure out how to do it.

I do admit that I am curious as to what a course on content  
management software would teach and how they would teach it.

Thanks,

Cary

Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://www.chillco.com

On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Elizabeth Perry wrote:

> As a follow up to this conversation:
>
> I'm a library science student at Michigan and was contemplating  
> taking a
> course in CMS next semester. Do you find that this is an important  
> skill to
> have as a librarian?
>
> Thanks for you advice,
> Elizabeth
>
> -- 
> Elizabeth Perry
> eswieri at umich.edu
> (857) 928-6554
> Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Center for Library Initiatives
> http://www.cic.net
> University of Michigan School of Information
> http://www.si.umich.edu