The VTI technologists are familiar with most computer searchable data bases and most of the conventional paper libraries in the world. They are adept in soliciting librarians in finding obscure references that are not usually available to conventional searchers. Many of the members of VTI's network maintain their own private libraries that have proven useful to VTI's searches in the past. Parsing of Recorded Knowledge. The Unique Value of Unrecorded Knowledge.
Unrecorded knowledge is usually more valuable, provided it is accessible.
It is limited in its distribution and usually newly created. Because it is in the mind of a technologist, it may be useful in solving problems that heretofore could not be solved. If two technologists, one with a problem and one with new technology, get together, a new solution to the problem may emerge. May Never Know, Ask. One of VTI's favorite insights is that, no matter how long the technologist has been a friend or an associate, his or her special knowledge about a subject must not be assumed.