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Article: "Hi, trouble! What's new?" (citation searching)(Column)
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Many, many years ago, I got my first speaking engagement with the Information Industry Association (IIA). It was only a regional meeting, but, frankly. I was thrilled. Golly! Gee! Speaking in front of the folks who actually made the databases I had used for so many years! Representing users everywhere, the Silent Majority whose Voice I could become, a Voice that would peal forth for all the Muted and Oppressed.
Neato!
Technically, I didn't actually have any status as an official speaker or panelist. The colleague who programmed the event had assigned me to the fringes of the seminar. (Some might say I never left those fringes.) My job was to spring ...