Role of librarians

[Roberta Johnson]

>
>That may be mostly true,  but it is not true that all the infomation I need
>is in my local public library. And when I need a cgi script to
>process forms, I'm not going to the library. If I want the text
>of the latest Supreme Court decision the day after it comes down,
>I'll find it on the Internet, but not in the library.
>

Just a comment--most of the public libraries in my area (suburban Chicago),
large and small, either have  Internet access for patrons or are about to.
So the difference between "on the Internet" and "in the library" will soon
be moot, I hope.

Roberta

Roberta S. Johnson
Morton Grove Public Library
rjohnson at mgk.nslsilus.org