You are the librarian/information manager for Clomglomerate, Inc. and have arrived at work at 7:30 this morning, as usual, to read the Wall Street Journal. A story on page l leaps out at you:

CLOMGLOMERATE,INC.MAY BUY (name of company)_________________________

You know that there will be a lot of people in the library/information center in the next few hours asking about this company. You decide to get together as good a packet of information on this company as you can in the next two or three hours. You know this packet should have at least the following:

(l) Basic information on the history, operations, officers, divisions, employee size, etc.;
(2) Financial information, including stock (if any) performance, debts, earnings, ratings of bonds, etc.;
(3) As detailed biographical information (including salaries) as is available on the officers of the company;
(4) Product data (what, how much, success of the product, market share, etc.);
(5) Citations (and full text of brief articles) to journal and newspaper articles that have appeared on the company and its officers in the last year or two.

You realize that you do not have time to make this a thorough repackaging of the information but you know that it needs to be organized by major groupings of types of information, such as that given above. Of necessity you will have to do a cut and paste job of the sources that you have used for your information. These printouts, photocopied pages, etc. should, of course, include brief citations to the sources where they came from in case a user wants to check them for more details.

P.S. Take my advice and use a public company for this assignment; it is a lot easier than a private company.  However, if you want to do a private company, do not let me stop you.  If you do this, then in addition to the types of information noted above, give me a brief summary of what you could not find and where you looked.  The scenario above says 2-3 hours; this is for an expert searcher; the beginner should multiply this by 3-4 times.