In any career, there will always be things you can control, and things you can't. But for special librarians, it is getting a little hard to tell the difference. Work in a venerable corporate library, say at Time Inc. or perhaps the American Bankers Association, or more recently Chevron and Arthur Andersen, and one day you suddenly find yourself unemployed and packing boxes. Decide to get out of the library and bring your services directly into the organization, and you find out your boss thinks someone named Google is already doing your job. Just how is today's special librarian supposed to manage a career?
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