Inc. Cover Subject: Librarian as Information Savior

Staff -- Library Journal, 1/18/1999

In many businesses and organizations, librarians struggle to be at the center of the elusive trend toward Knowledge Management (KM), but at Highsmith, Inc., which Inc. magazine terms "The Smartest Little Company in America,"librarian Lisa Guedea Carreño serves "as the company'sexternal-information sherpa and, increasingly, as a sounding boardand informal consultant." That's why Inc. put her on the cover. Inthe lengthy article, Leigh Buchanan describes how GuedeaCarreño helps steer Highsmith -- the country's leading mailorder supplier of products for schools and libraries -- toward the future.