Long Live Academic Libraries

From Stan Katz, blogging at Brainstorm: For today I want to ignore the challenge to authority (and the library) posed by the World Wide Web and digital information, the world in which authority is hardest to establish and maintain –- except to say that it is the great libraries that are probably our best hope of maintaining the concept of authority in an age in which truth seems only a keystroke away. I think, by the way, that it is easy to make the case that we need librarians to mediate digital information for us. Long live libraries, long live librarians, long live archivists! These days none of them can and should be taken for granted. Read more at:
http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/katz/happy-new-year-to-libraries?commented=1#c000278