I ran across a Rethinking Information Careers post http://lisjobs.com/rethinking/?p=11 today published by Kim on June 28th and titled “Organizations: Who Needs What Info” part of which I found interesting and relevant to my current position and predicament:
“At this year’s SLA conference one of the hot topics was ‘embedded librarianship’ –- that is, working as an information pro for an organization, but not necessarily being attached to or affiliated with a corporate library or business information center.
Sometimes info pros end up as embedded librarians because their organization did away with their library, but were smart enough to realize the brain power of the library’s staffers was too valuable to lose. Other times this is because people were recruited out of the library to work directly, ‘on the ground,’ with an operational team (for example, the product development team). Or it might be that an ops team was simply savvy enough to realize how much they’d benefit from the research/writing/information organization skills of an info pro, and hired directly for that skill set.
Regardless of the path taken to get there, embedded librarianship offers an interesting and potentially growing career opportunity for info pros, one that allows them to contribute directly to team and organizational goals (and make visible their value to the bottom line)…”
At my current employment, I started out as the “librarian/historian” but the position has branched out (supposedly temporarily–since March 2007) to encompass Marketing Department functions which include product development project management and a variety of other marketing information functions.
