"[M]any of the most disruptive changes are taking place outside of the arena of traditional information management. They are being driven by the manufacture of phones and entertainment devices as well as by consumers of content whose interests and tastes are supported by the technology."
Also,
"[L]ibrarians will need to pay attention to how content is created, found and used by the increasingly self-sufficient, but also increasingly demanding and discerning information consumer/producer."
And also,
"What seems clear is that libraries should move beyond the role of collector and organizer of content, print and digital, to one that establishes the authenticity and provenance of content and provides the imprimatur of quality in an information-rich but context-poor world. The challenge is how to do this."
Finally,
“We are drowning in information but are starving for knowledge. Information is only useful when it can be located and synthesized into knowledge.”
This article reveals a future that is now, where we have all the information we could ever imagine literally in the palms of our hands. The job of the librarian will be teaching information consumers how to turn that information into usable information and then ultimately, knowledge.
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