Unlimited Librarians

Unlimited is a relatively new (4th issue) Canadian business magazine, if you scroll down to the second story in their Now See Hear section you'll find this well-written piece about the enduring value of librarians.

Librarians – all 1,300 of us in Alberta, 12,000 in Canada, and 158,000 in the U.S., not to mention the rest of the world – do three things: we buy information, we help you find information, and we loan you information. In my experience, we try to do these things using every useful technological tool at our disposal. We buy e-books, instant-message you through a search, check blog feeds to keep an eye on innovations at other libraries. New technologies have not changed the fundamental function of libraries; they constantly change how libraries approach their core mission.

Open Source - Librarians Embrace the Google Era - by Leah Vanderjagt - Unlimited Magazine

(Obscure sidebar: When transcribing this I first wrote it as "Librarians Emerge in the Internet Era" for some reason.)