Kerryn A. Brandt is a Senior Information Scientist in the Knowledge Center at Rohm and Haas Company. Since 1997, he has been part of team that provides a full range of technical and patent search and analysis services to employees worldwide in support of IP strategy, research, product development and legal processes. Kerryn received a BS in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS and PhD.degrees in Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MLS from the University of Maryland. Before coming to Rohm and Haas, Kerryn spent three years doing polymer research at Procter and Gamble and eight years in staff and faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University where he consulted, taught classes, and published on information retrieval, scientific databases and web-based distance learning.