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Skills gap - example - LSE

Added by Ed Fay · last edited by Ed Fay · on Apr 26, 2012 (view change)

Example: Building LSE Digital Library

Developing working practices, skills and infrastructure to support the collection, preservation and online dissemination of all digital material added to Library collections for which the Library has preservation responsibility

Where we were c.18 months ago - by way of example - when starting to make the business case for innovation

	Role	Skill	Resource (yes/no/percentage)	Notes
Strategic direction	Senior Library managers	Somewhat	Yes	We have reasonable engagement, but need to raise awareness of digital preservation implications and requirements in our senior team.
Operational management	Digital Library manager	Yes	Yes	Post dedicated to leading the innovation and service development work across the Library. Need to maintain investment in skills development.
Storage/servers	Sysadmin	Yes	Somewhat	Our IT team have the skills to implement our storage requirements but we have to compete against other Library system priorities.
Digital archives accessioning	Assistant archivist	Somewhat	20%	Maxed out available time and knowledge
Digital archives accessioning	Digital archivist	Yes	No	Need to recruit for a specialist post to focus on taking forward accessioning of born-digital archives. Options to hire in the skills we need or fill the post and invest in developing skills.
Preservation metadata	Metadata officer	Somewhat	Yes	Needs training to develop awareness of preservation metadata schemas.
Systems development	Software developer	Yes	No	Need to recruit for a dedicated systems developer to implement workflow and infrastructure requirements.
Operating preservation workflows	Technical services	No	No	See table below

Roughly where we are now - by way of comparison - an example of a more detailed breakdown of activities as we start to build operational service capacity

	Role	Skill	Resource (yes/no/percentage)	Notes
Operating preservation workflows	Technical services	No	No	This table contains more detailed breakdown of activities
Preservation planning	Collection Preservation Manager	No	Somewhat	Role to date has focused on print preservation - need for high-level preservation training and change in focus
Collection audits, quality assurance	Collection owners/managers	No	No	Need for low-level awareness of digital preservation and quality criteria plus time allocation from managers
Preservation actions	Preservation librarians	No	No	Need to redeploy / reskill existing staff