Quote of the Week
Another one for your, “what many people think about libraries/librarians” file. From an AP article about the decline of pay phones, “We used to find answers to simple questions by hand, predominantly in the library; now we turn to an Internet search engine. We have become accustomed to reshaping ourselves and quickly embracing the next generation of cultural clapboard.” Why isn’t the library community drilling it into the heads of journalists, aka information gatekeepers, that libraries and more importantly librarians are useful, relevant, and important in the age of web search?

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