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Working For A Vendor, Carol Tenopir Jul 2005

Working For A Vendor, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

A combination of content creators, online vendors, other intermediaries, and librarians work to bring online information sources to end users. Although these interconnected parts are sometimes adversarial, the current information marketplace relies on interaction among them all. People have wondered what it is like on the other side. The author interviewed three veterans who started out in libraries. This article presents the interviews.