10 New Library Positions - Going from Good to Great - What would you create?
Laura Cohen, Web Support Librarian, University at Albany, SUNY just posted the new positions she would like to create if there was anonymous donation:- Social Networking Support Librarian
- Collaborative Publishing Librarian
- Multimedia Publishing Librarian
- Coordinator of Student Participation
- Programming Risk-Taker
- Testbed Technologist
- Digitization Librarian
- Remote User Librarian
- Exploration and Training Librarian
- One position saved for future needs
On December 3, 2006, Jeffrey Trzeciak, University Librarian, identified some new / positions or new titles at McMaster University in his post entitled "Getting out of the Cataloguing Business." The positions are:
- Digital Strategies Librarian
- Systems Librarian
- E-Resource Librarian
- Training and Development Librarian
- User Experience Librarian
- Liaison Coordinator
- Access Services
What would you create for your library if you had this type of windfall? I've been pondering the ideas in Tim Collins' book, Good to Great, and thinking what would be the first step in moving a library towards being great. Collins described the way that the "good to great" companies focused on the "right" people more than on the technologies or the what they would do. If you could hire 10 great new people to help take your library from good to great ... who would they be?Tags: Human Resources | Library | Management
