Leaving the library

As of next week, I won’t be working in the library organization of my company any more.  My team, which focuses on enterprise search and taxonomy, will move into a centralized IT organization.  I’ve known about this possibility for months and knew that it was a possibility when I took this job about a year ago.  Although I am proud to be a librarian, and will always be, I am actually glad of this change.  My hope is that with this move, we will finally have significant support and broader understanding of our roles and mission.  It didn’t have to be this way, of course.  One of the reasons I was interested in working in the library in the first place when I interviewed there 3 1/2 years ago was the fact that they “owned” enterprise search.  However, it has become clear that our group would have a better fit in the centralized IT organization, and that is what will happen.  It could be “from the frying pan into the fire” as we sometimes say, but at least it’ll be something different.  I will miss many friends as we move to a different building in a different campus of the company.