Further Reading/Suggested Resources

Select Presentations:

The Future of the Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program. (Forthcoming Presentation). Core Forum. October 2022. Salt Lake City, UT.

The Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program. (Poster). Code4Lib. May 2022. Buffalo, NY.

The Future of the Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program. (Presentation). Coalition for Networked Information. 12/7/21. Virtual.

Ascending to New Heights: A Jumpstart Program to Prepare Students for Careers in Library Technology. Association for College & Research Libraries. (Presentation & Contributed Paper). 04/16/2021. Virtual.

The Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program.(Lightning Talk). Code4Lib. 03/25/2021. Virtual.

The Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program: A Transformational Approach to Technical Skill-Building for LIS Students. (Presentation). Coalition for Networked Information. 10/19/2020. Virtual.

From Stop-Start to Jumpstart: Experiences in Virtual Event Planning. (Internal SWAP Presentation). 10/6/2020. Virtual.

Developing the Technical Librarians of the Future: A Career Jumpstart Program.] Digital Libraries Federation Forum. (Presentation). 10/15/2019. Tampa, Florida

Our informal literature review bibliography:

Bertot, John Carlo, Lindsay C. Sarin, and Johnna Percell. “Re-envisioning the MLS: Findings, issues, and considerations.” University of Maryland, College Park, College of Information Studies, 2015. http://mls.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ReEnvisioningFinalReport.pdf

Bourg, Chris. “The Unbearable Whiteness of Librarianship.” Feral Librarian (blog), March 3, 2014. https://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-librarianship.

Carson, Pamela. “Re-Framing Librarians’ Identities and Assumptions Around IT.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 40, no. 3-4 (2014): 405-407. https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.03.011

Cruz, Justin de la, and Joshua Hogan. ““Hello, World!”: Starting a Coding Group for Librarians." Public Services Quarterly 12, no. 3 (2016): 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2016.1197082

Bosque, Darcy Del, and Cory Lampert. “A chance of storms: New librarians navigating technology tempests.” Technical Services Quarterly 26, no. 4 (2009): 261-286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317130802678878

Emanuel, Jenny. “Digital native academic librarians, technology skills, and their relationship with technology.” Information Technology and Libraries 32, no. 3 (2013): 20-33. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v32i3.3811

Fife, Dustin, and Mary Naylor Stephens. “Swiss Army Degree: Library and Information Science.” In Re-envisioning the MLS: Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.

Garcia, Sergei. “My Journey to Becoming a Web Developer from Scratch without a CS Degree (and What I Learned from It).” Medium, May 11, 2018. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/my-journey-to-becoming-a-web-developer-from-scratch-without-a-cs-degree-2-years-later-and-what-i-4a7fd2ff5503

Gonzales, Brighid M. “Computer Programming for Librarians: A Study of Job Postings for Library Technologists.” Journal of Web Librarianship 13, no. 1 (2019): 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2018.1534635

Hathcock, April. “White librarianship in blackface: Diversity initiatives in LIS.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe (blog), Oct. 7, 2015. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/

Johnson, Maggie and Max Senges. “Learning to be a Programmer in a Complex Organization: A Case Study on practice‐based Learning during the Onboarding Process at Google.” The Journal of Workplace Learning 22, no. 3 (2010): 180-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13665621011028620

Maceli, Monica. “Creating Tomorrow’s Technologists: Contrasting Information Technology Curriculum in North American Library and Information Science Graduate Programs Against Code4lib Job Listings.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 56, no. 3 (2015): 198. https://www.jstor.org/stable/90015186

Maceli, Monica. “What Technology Skills Do Developers Need? A Text Analysis of Job Listings in Library and Information Science (LIS) from Jobs.Code4lib.Org.” Information Technology and Libraries 34, no. 3 (2015): 8–21. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v34i3.5893.

Maceli, Monica, and John J. Burke. “Technology Skills in the Workplace: Information Professionals’ Current Use and Future Aspirations.” Information Technology and Libraries 35 no. 4 (2016): 35–62. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v35i4.9540.

Maceli, Monica. “Tech-savvy librarian versus (library) technologist: understanding the future role of librarians in technology practice.” In Re-envisioning the MLS: Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-28302018000044B009.

Pronschinske, Mitch. “Bootcamps Won’t Make You a Coder. Here’s What Will.” TechBeacon, 2016. https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/bootcamps-wont-make-you-coder-heres-what-will

Riley-Huff, DA and JM Rholes. “Librarians and Technology Skill Acquisition: Issues and Perspectives.” Information Technology and Libraries 30, no. 3 (2011): 129-140. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v30i3.1770

Scripps-Hoekstra, Lindy, Megan Carroll, and Theresa Fotis. “Technology Competency Requirements of ALA-Accredited Library Science Programs: An Updated Analysis.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 55, no. 1 (2014): 40-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43686966

Singh, Vandana and Mehra, Bharat. “Strengths and weaknesses of the information technology curriculum in library and information science graduate programs.” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 45, no. 3(2013): 219–231. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000612448206

Wusteman, Judith. “Introducing web components into the LIS graduate curriculum.” Information and Learning Science (2017). https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-08-2017-0084.

Yelton, Andromeda. Coding for librarians: learning by example. American Library Association, 2015.

“Why Would a Librarian Learn to Code?” 2016. Code and the Librarian (blog). January 24, 2016. https://codeandthelibrarian.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/why-would-a-librarian-learn-to-code/

Last updated on September 26, 2022.

From NC State University Libraries. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/jumpstart