Are We in the Knowledge Business?

摘要

Information professionals have long lived by the Samuel Johnson quote, "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Occasionally, we identify with the first of those two kinds of knowledge. In academia, subject specialists/liaisons know the important subject matter and sources for the departments to which they are assigned. In the corporate and government worlds, information professionals understand the nature of the business and the concerns of the company/government agency.