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We focus here on relationships workers have with information infrastructures (Erickson and Jarrahi 2016; Henningsson and Hanseth 2011; Jackson et al. 2007), particularly as they move about between locations and institutions as part of their working. In doing so, these workers rely on stores of knowledge that allow them to continue moving forward—both figuratively and literally. These knowledge workers exist within a professional landscape that is increasingly expansive (ie, globalized, interorganizational) and decomposed (ie, expertise driven, project based), and we assert that this knowledge not only is becoming highly individualized, but also is progressively more elemental to what it means to be a knowledge worker (National Academies of Science 2017; Spinuzzi 2015; Barley and Kunda 2006; Davenport 2005). 1

We articulate the stores of knowledge that workers draw on as a form of “infrastructural …