At the Core

Information Intermediary

The role of librarians and library technicians as mediators between people and the complex world of information is becoming ever greater and more important. Whether this linkage takes place in the digital or the physical world, the information professional is not (any longer) the person who knows the answer to any question; but he or she knows how to find that answer and wants to help others learn how to find it themselves (in librarian-speak this is called "information literacy").