Information technology has disrupted the careers of many profes-sionals over the past decade by changing both what work is per-formed and how it is performed. Technical skill set gaps amongreference staff are a serious problem in libraries today. The librarysubject or topic research pathfinder continues to play a large sup-porting role in a library's reference service, yet few reference de-partments have a staff compliment in which each and every teammember has the same Web development skill sets. Research guidesare no longer static webpages with organized lists. Online Web de-velopment services like editme.com and LibGuides enable all staffto equally participate in developing webpages to support referenceservice, without a steep technical learning curve.
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