Superheroes of data: Why my protagonist wanted to be a librarian

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Up until the year 2000, like most people, I never really gave much thought to what a librarian actually does. Back then I was an information architect for a small start-up company in Silicon Valley. I attendeda conference on information architecture in Boston that year that I learned how much I didn’t know about librarians.

The conference was, for the most part, split into two camps: the tech nerds like me who worked for internet companies and librarians. What I learned at that conferenc...