Changing Roles? Changing Worlds!

摘要

You've heard it from conference and seminar speakers and read it in professional journals and the popular press. Books and the printed page are passe. The role of the online search intermediary is dead. Your library is being outsourced tomorrow. Change or become extinct. Implicit in this forecast of doom is the notion that we are doing something wrong. That the skills we have honed in retrieving, analyzing, and disseminating information to library and information center users are defunct. That people don't need these skills any more and our adherence to the.m does no good, indeed does harm.