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Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet?

 

 

 

Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet?

by Robert Graboyes, PBS Newshour

 

 

Observe librarians, and you’ll learn quite a bit about 21st century physicians. Digital technologies are hurling both professions into disintermediated worlds where they are no longer sole providers of vital services. Both must change their skills year by year and prove their value day by day. Both must choose whether the change is liberating or suffocating. [more]