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The thing with libraries is that they're full of librarians. For some reason, it has fallen out of vogue for all but the oldest/largest companies (and government agencies) to hire librarians to work outside their libraries.


And, librarians are professionals who are trained specifically in the challenges around managing info, etc...Like many other areas, many corporations don't value long-term attention to things that will help them the most...in the long term. Its just too much short-term thinking...as well as, "oh hell, we don';t need to hire librarians...that takes money away from stockholders...Everyone in the company will just figure out how to manage the data at some point in some fashion on their own...etc." :-p





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