Sometimes it seems we information professionals can get too caught up in the institutional decision making of our organizations. We spend our time working with vendors, thinking about their products and services, comparing them to those of other vendors or sources, perusing legal contracts, discussing aspects of purchases or potential purchases with colleagues. We worry about budgets, about staff reactions, about orders from on high-real or imaginary. We compare our professional activities to past years in our institutions or to performance at comparable institutions. We turn our professional faces toward institutions and their processes.
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