An article in today's NY Times champions the role of librarian in an age of instant access to information on the internet.
When Google doesn't work, most people don't have a plan B," said Joe Janes, an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington in Seattle, who is teaching a course on Google this quarter. "Librarians have lots of plan B's. We know when to go to a book, when to call someone, even when to go to Google."
On interesting side effect to the prominence of Google, says the article, is that librarians spend less time answering quick-reference questions, and are are then able to spend more time to spend with petrons on the difficult questions.
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