http://userslib.com/2007/07/11/librarians-are-human-computer-mediators/ Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:37:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://userslib.com/2007/07/11/librarians-are-human-computer-mediators/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Jessica Feeman Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:58:04 +0000 http://userslib.com/?p=76#comment-17 I completely agree! I hear all the time from people (not people around the library, fortunately) that librarians, even libraries, will be defunct soon. No way. Libraries are responding - hence the whole library 2.0 thing - and will be even more needed to navigate all the newfangled ways of getting at information. I would expect the reference desk to get much busier, not less so, in the near future as information access gets techier. I completely agree! I hear all the time from people (not people around the library, fortunately) that librarians, even libraries, will be defunct soon. No way. Libraries are responding – hence the whole library 2.0 thing – and will be even more needed to navigate all the newfangled ways of getting at information. I would expect the reference desk to get much busier, not less so, in the near future as information access gets techier.

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