I like everything I read by Mary Ellen Bates, so I subscribed to her e-mail Tip of the Month.

Ms. Bates has an MLS from UC, Berkeley, and according to her Web site, Mary Ellen Bates — Bates Information Services — information broker, she has been an online researcher since the late 1970s.

On her “Info-brokering” page she has a link to a September 2002 article, A Day in the life of an Information Broker [PDF format], which I read when I first entered library school. It gave me a view of another way that an MLS can be put to good use.