Role of librarians

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 weibel at oclc.org wrote:
> 
> > Remember we already agreed that the real content of the internet is 
> > people.
> 
> I didn't agree on this... nope... not a bit.  Finding and communicating with
> people is a very important component of the net, to be sure.  Fashioning a
> reliable environment for selecting, organizing, accessing, and preserving the
> cultural, technical, and scientific record is another dimension.  

_was_ another dimension. Remember old McLuhan: the medium is the message? 
Same as it always was, same as it always was ... if the medium changes so 
does the message ... and maybe more importantly for you, so does oclc!

> BTW, my colleague was not pointing to TimBL, but rather to his paper... that's
> the link that was broken.

I know that was my point, find the person find the paper. If you actually 
sat your friend down and did what is referred to as an old fashioned 
reference interview: What would you like? What are you trying to do? When 
do you need it by? How are you going to use it?  You'd find that what 
your friend and most people want is a dialog with the author as to what 
they meant. With books this is impossible. With the net it is very 
possible.

--Thom