“Marilyn Johnson, a former staff writer for Life magazine…delights in refuting our assumptions about librarians, while making a rock-solid case for their indispensability at a time when library systems are losing an average of 50 librarians per year. Who else is going to help us formulate the questions Google doesnt understand, or show non-English speakers how to apply for jobs online…Go to a library. Most people havent seen whats happened. Since the ’90s, libraries have become computer centers, Blockbusters and community centers, all in one. We have this illusion that you can find anything on the Web, that you can type in a keyword and the world will open up. But you can get a lot of garbage and wrong information, and many, many things get lost in cyberspace or do not appear in digital form…Librarians, Johnson argues, are one of our most underappreciated natural resources.”
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