Library Systems Analyst-A Job Description

THOMAS MINDER Library Systems Analyst - A Job Description

SYsTEMS ANALYSIS has become an important part of librarianship. Courses are being offered in schools. Librarians want to add analysts to their staff, and the term frequently appears in library research and development literature. There can be little doubt concerning the reasons for interest. The continuing pressure to introduce automation, especially electronic data processing, into the profess...

Profile Analyst: Advanced Job Candidate Matching via Automatic Skills Linking

The recruitment process is a slow and inefficient one at best, and a potentially ineffective one at worst. Matching candidates to jobs is one thing, but matching candidates with jobs alongside appropriate expectations and taking into account the right aptitude and suitability for any given role is another thing and in this paper we look at a whole new way of matching jobs with potential candida...

Information Systems for the Forest Resource Analyst

The USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program collects, analyzes, and reports on the status and trends of America’s forests. The FIA program has recently developed a standardized data format and data mining tools that allow the public to extract FIA information to meet their individual needs. One of these data mining tools is the Forest Inventory Mapmaker webapplication ...

The Changing Roles of the Systems Analyst

15 Spring • 1994 Information Resources Management Journal Manuscript originally submitted December 22, 1992; Revised June 2, 1993; Accepted July 7, 1993. A systems analyst is an ambiguous title that has been used to describe everyone from programmer to team leader. In spite of its shortcomings, this title comes closest to defining the person (or persons) who play the most critical role in syste...

Case Technology as a Mediating Factor in Analyst and Programmer Job Outcomes