Ethan Fenichel 🐲

(cont) like, certainly some description. But the majority of the work is likely to be project management, metadata work, web design, etc. I think a lot of this is covered in DH lit, right? So, lib directors don't want to reskill. How do TS workers get there? AND are we going to still be paid as catalogers for doing PM and Web Design work?

Ugh... and what if the library can't convince scholars to produce collections and doesn't have much?

Alright, I'll stop. But this is where my heads at

Apr 20, 2017 at 8:07pmWeb
Show threadanna 🤖 sophiaApr 21, 2017
@EthanDF I don't work in ac libs, but from the experience I do have, this sounds spot on to me. I do question, though, how much catalogers actually need to "reskill." It seems to me like a problem with management, not with [lack of] skilled labor.
Show threadanna 🤖 sophiaApr 21, 2017
@EthanDF I'm teaching a linked data production workshop to an audience of catalogers this summer, so maybe I'll have a different perspective on TS reskilling after that.
Show threadanna 🤖 sophiaApr 21, 2017
@EthanDF Definitely a huge issue, though, is admin being unwilling to compensate catalogers for performing increasingly more technically -- and ethically -- complex work.
Show threadEthan Fenichel 🐲Apr 21, 2017
@annasophia I'll be interested in your experiences. I've only worked with 1 library directly and some other folks through consortial work. My experience is that many of the highly skilled folks have great depth of knowledge in their workflows. as those workflows are altered to meet changing needs they are less comfortable applying their skills in new ways. The discomfort can lead to frustration, of course. I'm thinking about e.g. working with KBART files instead of works in hand.
Show threadanna 🤖 sophiaApr 21, 2017
@EthanDF Totally! That makes sense. My very, very smart former boss was really thrown for a loop when OCLC retired institution records, on which our whole workflow was based.
Show threadEthan Fenichel 🐲Apr 21, 2017
@annasophia but also, hell yes to management being a problem.