Exposing the secret state [ABSTRACT]
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By Tim Buckley Owen

Abstract

There isn't an information professional in the world these days who doesn't have to demonstrate that they add value. But media librarians - the folk who work for news organisations, publications and broadcasters - probably need to try harder than most.

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There isn't an information professional in the world these days who doesn't have to demonstrate that they add value. But media librarians - the folk who work for news organisations, publications and broadcasters - probably need to try harder than most.

What's Inside:

Information professionals are operating in a world where millions of self-publishers push out screeds of stuff, most of it adding only a tiny percentage of value to the raw intelligence on which it was based. Finding the nugget that is going to be of genuine value to the communicators we support becomes ever more challenging.

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