Do you know what a "real" librarian is like? When you go to the library and approach a "real" librarian, you can read it in the eyes:  "Please have something really exciting I can help you with! Give me any topic, and I'll run with it until you are loaded with relevant books, journals, and references."

Library science is not immune to the awesome shifts that are transforming all of the media professions. Hardcopy will always be with us, but instant electronic access to the whole of human knowledge is already dominating the means and methods of contemporary librarians.