View out Steve’s office window

At Colorado College, we are looking for a new Systems Librarian. Here is the ad that I have been posting:

Colorado College, in Colorado Springs, is seeking an energetic, creative, engaged librarian to support technology initiatives in a liberal arts college environment. Problem solving and project management skills are essential. Tutt Library is actively engaged in planning for future technology through a digital library initiative. Among the projects we are considering or plan to begin soon are redesigned and dynamic Web pages, a federated search engine, and an institutional repository. We also need to plan a preservation program for digital assets of the college, and seek to maximize the utility of our III integrated library system. Tell us how you can help us with these projects! For complete job description and application procedure see the position announcement on the CC Human Resources site.

I’m not sure if I should say much about the job, except that you should note that the laundry list of technologies under “position requirements” has a lot of “ORs” in it. We don’t expect to find a metadata expert AND digital preservationist AND web jockey AND database guru AND programmer geek all rolled into one; tell us what you can do, and we’ll see how that fits into where we want to go.

For my part, I’ll say that I really love working at Colorado College. It is the kind of place where, when I suggest a slightly wacky idea, my colleagues usually say “sure, why not? And wouldn’t it be cool if we did [some other cool idea] too?”

And as for the location, check out the photo I took this morning looking out my office window. (You can’t have my office.)