Yesterday, I passed on my dream job as an electronic services librarian. I had to decline because of personal commitments more than anything. The timing was really bad. I really do see positions like this as the future of librarianship especially when it comes to reference and information services. Managing digital access and digital resources is more important than ever. If more organizations dedicated staff to making their digital resources more accessible, easier to navigate, and more self service, book librarians could spend their time focusing on building collections for their communities and outreach librarians could spend their time developing services to the people who really need it.
I’m sorry it didn’t work out — except that I’m not sorry that our system won’t lose you yet. Ideally they’ll make that same sort of position here and you can have the best of both worlds. Goodness knows our system would benefit from having you in charge of our electronic services! Congrats on getting the offer though!