ABSTRACT: Librarians have traditionally been concerned with certain functions, and most of these have their parallels in the electronic publishing era. It is often suggested that some or all of these functions become redundant in an era when increasing amounts of information are available directly to users via the Internet. This argument is contradicted by an often-heard complaint that the Internet is completely chaotic, and therefore that people waste much time in fruitless searching for …
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