TY - JOUR AU - Maceli, Monica PY - 2015/09/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - What Technology Skills Do Developers Need? A Text Analysis of Job Listings in Library and Information Science (LIS) from Jobs.code4lib.org JF - Information Technology and Libraries JA - ITAL VL - 34 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.6017/ital.v34i3.5893 UR - https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/5893 SP - 8-21 AB - <p>Technology plays an indisputably vital role in library and information science (LIS) work; this rapidly moving landscape can create challenges for practitioners and educators seeking to keep pace with such change.&nbsp; In pursuit of building our understanding of currently sought technology competencies in developer-oriented positions within LIS, this paper reports the results of a text analysis of a large collection of job listings culled from the Code4lib jobs website.&nbsp; Beginning over a decade ago as a popular mailing list covering the intersection of technology and library work, the Code4lib organization's current offerings include a website that collects and organizes LIS-related technology job listings.&nbsp; The results of the text analysis of this dataset suggest the currently vital technology skills and concepts that existing and aspiring practitioners may target in their continuing education as developers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -