The model arose from the days in which a person needing business or professional information would turn to the in-house computer specialists or corporate librarians who had computer terminals and knew the arcane commands needed to retrieve the information.

Proposing an answer, Dialog Information Systems Inc., one of the largest publishers of electronic data bases for corporate librarians, will announce a new fee structure on Wednesday that departs from current industry pricing.

Dialog has traditionally specialized in business directories and scientific bibliographies and abstracts - data more likely to be searched by a corporate or professional librarian for co-workers.

Katherine started out at HowStuffWorks.com as the corporate librarian.

Library Connect is a global program from Elsevier for academic, medical, corporate and government librarians.

Her mother, Daphne Chang, is the corporate librarian for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in New York.

After serving on the library-science faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he became the corporate librarian and marketing manager at Allied Chemical, which eventually became Allied Signal.

"We had a low budget but the right people," said Mr. Ashton, a Mattituck native who has a day job as a corporate librarian.

One was a fat girl who lived at home with her mother in Burns, Oregon, the other a sharp-jawed old maid employed as a corporate librarian in Philadelphia.

The meeting's traditional audience is corporate librarians and professional researchers who use dial-up computer data bases to get information.