[Web4lib] Skillset for new librarians

[Roy Tennant]

Todd,
I originally sent this message just to you, not to the list. My thinking was
that if someone like you wanted to beef up your general tech skills, a focus
on the technologies I named would, I think, be a good choice and would open
up many opportunities for you. The reason is that those several technologies
act in concert to basically be the next-gen web user interface.

You can build significant enterprise web sites with those three things and
not touch a lick of XML. Also, if you add in XML then you must add in XSLT
and likely another programming language to boot, so before you know it you
have a rather long list of technologies and it will be hard and
time-consuming to become proficient in them all.

That's why I suggested a boiled-down list of highly marketable skills that
appear to have some legs going into the future. Would I argue against
learning XML and XSLT? Of course not, but that points you to a very
different set of potential jobs.
Roy


On 1/4/11 1/4/11 € 10:52 AM, "Todd Michael Grooten"
<toddmichael at chattylibrarians.org> wrote:

> On 1/4/2011 1:09 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>> I think in terms of just general tech knowledge, I would say anyone
>> proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript will be eminently employable in
>> the years to come. There are a lot of organizations betting big on those
>> technologies.
>> Roy
>> 
>> 
> 
> Would you add XML to that list?
> 
> (and forgive my poor phrasing in my earlier message - not enough coffee
> today)
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
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