Increased need for marketing library services. Audits can also improve your professional visibility if properly done. Arlene Farber Sirkin frequently consults for organizations conducting information audits. I ask my clients to clarify, formally and informally, why the audit is being done. In some cases, someone in management is initiating an information audit to justify eliminating or contracting out the entire function.
Audits can, however, help protect the library's turf.
TOP InfoStar Struck Mary Gilligan and her library colleagues were among a number of attendees at a celebratory lunch. Her law firm had won an important patent case for a client. Without their help and a critical Dialog patent search, they wouldn't have had the information that invalidated the opposition's position. Regularly, IRC participates in the assistant account executive training program. The group split up and mined for the information.