Your organization is acquired by another company. There's massive reorganization. Budgets are slashed. But when the library staff at Digital Equipment Corporation faced that situation, they not only survived, they thrived. Now known as WebLibrary at Compaq Computer Corporation in Littleton, Massachusetts, the library is a virtual service that excels in content integration, user-based system design, and the development of a high degree of synergy between library and IT functions.
Librarians make great additions to information-industry organizations.
In this article from Searcher, Margaret Gross examines various types of information required for the CI activity, as well as reliable sources to monitor. The CI searcher must continuously monitor, evaluate, and analyze many data components in order to maintain a comprehensive competitive intelligence program within an organization. Besides looking at data types, we will examine how new Web-based technology has revolutionized the gathering, storage, and dissemination of information. The policy history of the U.S. government is preserved in 21 million boxes in 16 storage facilities scattered across the country. Hundreds of millions of pages document decades of activity by dozens of federal agencies.