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Some mourn the advent of Google and its ilk as a death knell for libraries -- no longer are we the gatekeepers of knowledge, scattering pearls of wisdom like gifts. But just as a caterpillar does not die upon emerging from its coccoon, libraries do not face an ending, but a shift in function.
Information drought is deplorable, but information overload can be no easier to handle. Information is free on the Internet, ripe for the picking, yes -- and difficult to trust or verify. And so librarians don new robes and assume new roles, sifting the wheat from the chaff, the gold from the alloy.