Do we need a systems librarian?
Today we discussed what do systems librarians do? What tasks do they perform on a typical day? Of course there is the usually meetings with vendors, training staff and users to use new technologies, planning new implemenations and then there is dealing with technical crisis. At least one systems librarian seems to spend a lot of time dealing with printer problems – I wonder is it necessary to have an MLIS to deal with this issue? If there are too few systems librarians do we need to better define the tasks which actually require a systems librarian. And leave the printer problems to a computer techie, who can probably find a better solution anyway.
