Hug a sysadmin at your library
In honor of SysAdminDay, I’d like to give a shout-out to library sysadmins everywhere. Not only do they keep the networks running, the PCs together, the OPAC up and running during a Slashdotting (hey, you never know, it just might happen), the obscure 20-year-old CD-ROM databases alive, and the various dis-integrated library applications tied together, they give the catalogers sharing the basement offices somebody to talk to!
July 28th, 2008 at 7:39 am
…and who are the guys and gals who get blamed from nearly everything from the Internet being down to the coffee maker not working to someone stealing the Any Key.
If it doesn’t work we have to fix it.
If it works we have to upgrade it.
If it’s upgraded we have to train staff on it.
IT…the perpetual motion machine (and job security)!
Kudos to all my fellow IT brethren!