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Introduction With a focus that is much more narrowly based than public and school libraries, special libraries limit their scope of expertise to serve particular requests of their clients. “The special library offers information access and specialized custom service to ensure rapid delivery of information to meet customers’ unique information needs” (82). Special libraries can be found in any number of places such as corporate, law, or medical offices, as well as in museums, news rooms, and in non-profits, and it is a small non-profit where the interview for this paper takes place. Special libraries are developed to help promote and support the overall mission of the parent company. The previously mentioned definition of special libraries …show more content…
The parent Center offers a mission statement which is to “accelerate certain industry technology-based economic development through innovation, commercialization, education, and business growth”. Founded in 1984 by the general assembly of the state of North Carolina, the Center works to bring economic growth to North Carolina in a certain business …show more content…
The focus of the information center has a very limited amount of books and journals as most information is found online through various databases. Market research reports are the exception. The “technology is us building our own records” that allow us to build data that will inform the answer to a question that will allow someone will make a decision based on that information. Technology is crucial with library, it is about getting, creating and outputting data to help inform decisions. Mission is to offer tools to help inform better decisions.
One of the most important qualities that a library leader can poses is according to Ms. Marvelous, and especially relevant to her current work is “looking around the corner to see what is coming next” whether that means what is coming next with technology, certain trends occurring within the state, reading the tea leaves to see what the management of the Center has planned. All of this requires her to step away from her computer and get out and talk with the folks in all units to see what is going

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