librarian

Data managers should emulate good librarians

April 15, 2011

Haul away the hardware, peel off the software, rinse off the mystique and you see what the people who manage data really are: They’re librarians. That’s the role IT workers should model themselves on. I’m not talking about technology. I don’t care what tools anyone uses. Whether we’re talking about bound paper known as “books” [...]

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Librarian looks up a real “solution”

April 21, 2010

A friend of mine runs the library at a small university near me, and she hears pitches all the time for neat technology. I suppose she doesn’t hear much about BI, just library stuff, but let’s not get hung up on the details. To keep her priorities straight, she keeps a “ruthless focus” on the [...]

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Meet the “metador”

October 14, 2009

Information Management editorial director Jim Ericson writes about the modern corporate librarian, the “metador.” He talked to that term’s creator, Bob Boiko. Boiko says the people he trains or identifies are not usually tech-savvy people, nor do they seek to be. He sees them as natively talented indexers or organizers who might not be called [...]

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