I would HIGHLY recommend that you hire someone with a museum
background and commitment but with computer skills and slightly
nerdish tendencies: because trying to teach a specifically
computer-trained person to understand what you are talking about
(and trying to compete with what they can earn in the private
sector!) will certainly prove expensive and conceivably impossible
in the long run, whereas someone with a commitment as a museum
professional AND this interest can be invested in with more computer
training. In Mississippi state government we have a classification
called "DP-Technical Specialist" that combines computer
training/experience with professional qualifications in the target
field, and it works very well for such purposes.
Pat Galloway (IS Manager)
MS Dept of Archives and History