Ethan Fenichel 🐲Apr 20, 2017

(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

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 🤖 sophia
@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.
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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.