By dingaling
> people need people like librarians to help utilize that fire hose more
Given the explosion of niche interests over the past 50 years I don’t think its feasible for librarians to provide that service except at extremes of the spectrum: internal university or corporate information of extreme specificity at one end and public general interest ( specific poets, national geography etc ) at the other.
In the middle is a vast information space traditionally only explored and indexed by clubs and societies but now predominantly by the search engines that are also increasingly the last word for general interest topics.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10401382
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