robg writes “This article on “CareerPro News” highlights Special Librarianship and its contribution to organizations today:
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“Where there’s information to be stored, retrieved, analyzed or distributed, there’s a need for special librarians. That’s because they do way more than simply rhyme off the Dewey Decimal system. They locate accurate and reliable information for organizations and help bridge the gap between employees and technology.
“…special librarians are known by many different names: corporate librarians, knowledge officers, decision support managers, corporate memory managers and business intelligence officers.
“‘Regardless of what they’re called, they’re all vital to an organization’s ability to know what it knows, and discover what it doesn’t.'”
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Term out-of-date
Maybe special librarians are known by other names because the term “special librarian” is out-of-date, and reflects the change in the nature of the job. Yet, the libary has not changed its methodologies over the years, only cosmetic such as Windows interface but the underlying data and methodology (e.g. MARC) has remained unchanged.