Libraries struggle to keep up with demand for instant information
This is true. Librarians are trying to keep up budget-wise, access-wise, and techonologically with the desire of customers for the latest gadget and online information. But that's really not the problem [and not really the focus of the article]. The problem is that library users now think that they know as much about getting information as the librarian does. In some cases that may be true, but just because you know how to type words into google, doesn't mean you know what words to type, how to read the results, or how long you should be looking/waiting. Librarians [or at least the ideal librarians] knows this and should not be avoided like so many desperate students/jobseekers/fiddlers seem to do.
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Nobody ever takes those classes seriously. And I mean, nobody : not students, not profs, not staff, not administration... maybe the odd librarian.
Oh, and I forgot to include this.
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