Random & Casual Poll: What abt. Web Services Should You Know?

[Nina Mchale]

You forgot: salary, $32,000. ;)

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Cockerill, Alan
<alan.cockerill at jcu.edu.au>wrote:

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> You raise an interesting side issue John – ‘ambient knowledge’. I know my
> understanding and ability to problem solve is greatly improved by some
> understanding of the nuts and bolts of TCP/IP. I remember the light going
> on playing with ARP and telneting to a mail server and saying HELO.  I
> can’t imagine not knowing about dnslookup, ping, traceroute, whois but
> they’re not things I directly use every day. I’m not sure they’re essential
> to a web programmer – it’s hard for me to imagine coming in as a new
> graduate right now.****
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> I’ve often seen library tech jobs advertised on the interwebs where I’ve
> thought any applicant that would meet these could walk on water. I think
> we’re building our own now: New Graduate must have 10 years industry
> experience ;-) Linux, Windows sys admin, dba in oracle, SQLserver, high
> level abilities in Java, PERL, Python, Ruby, ASP, C#, machine code, Cisco,
> Red Hat and Microsoft certified network engineer, barista skills and must
> clean windows.****
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *John Creech
> *Sent:* Thursday, 13 September 2012 2:41 AM
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> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] Random & Casual Poll: What abt. Web Services
> Should You Know?****
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> Network topology.  Many people do not grok how many hops a click on a
> library web site takes before the full text is delivered to the patron, how
> many servers it passes through in multiple locations around the U.S. or
> internationally. ****
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> John
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> >>> Rosalyn Metz <rosalynmetz at GMAIL.COM> 9/12/2012 6:41 AM >>>
> Communication. Communication. Communication. I think as long as you have
> an aptitude to learn a new technology, you can put your mind to it. The
> hard part is being able to communicate what it is that you're going to be
> doing. ****
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> For example, I want to build an application that is going to accomplish a
> particular task for my user. In the end, the user doesn't really want to
> know what language I build it in. What the user wants to know is whether or
> not my application is going to have this feature or that feature. If I
> can't communicate with a user in order to discover what it is they want and
> what I can do to deliver it, the number of programming languages, web
> tools, etc. that I know will be completely useless.
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu
> > wrote:****
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>  Hi everyone, ****
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> Every so often in the library blogosophere I see posts dedicated to
> whether librarians should know how to code. The answer I usually give is
> awful - something like, “Um. Probably.” Anyway, since you all work with the
> web and/or library systems, I’m curious about your wizened answers. Here’s
> the scenario: *if a LIS student intending to work in web services *(or
> w/e) *asked your advice, what code / platforms / other skills would you
> recommend for success?* ****
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> I’ll compile and share the results in a couple of weeks. ****
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> All the best, ****
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> *M*ichael *Schofield*(@nova.edu) | Web Services Librarian ****
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> Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center ****
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> Hi! Hit me up *any* time, but I’d *really* appreciate it if you report *broken
> links*, *bugs*, your meeting *minutes*, or request an awesome *web app* over
> on the Library Web Services <http://staff.library.nova.edu/pm> site. ****
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