Thing #15

I found the article "Away from Icebergs" to be interesting. In particular, I thought the paragraph about librarians "educating" the public in how to access information was insightful. How true it is that the ratio of librarians to users is so high that there is no possible way for the librarian to teach everyone. We need to make it easy for users to access the information on their own without needing the librarian to walk them through it step by step. But, my question is: what will librarians be necessary for? I think that is the key area that will need to be refined as we go forward into this multi-media information-accessing age!