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Article: ONLINE and off: Marydee Ojala is always searching.(Meet the Editor)
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- Information Today
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- September 1, 2009
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When we were talking on the phone about this interview, Marydee Ojala and I were trying to figure out just how long we've known each other. In short, it's been a long time, going back to the early 1990s during the heyday of the National Online Meeting. During its reign of many years, that was the only conference produced by Information Today, Inc. (ITI), which was called Learned Information, Inc. at the time. We actually started working together when she became editor of ONLINE, but that's jumping ahead of the story.
Before ONLINE
Ojala earned her B.A. in English from Brown University and went on to the University of Pittsburgh for an M.L.S. She started ...