One From Columbian.com takes a nice look at the life of a reference librarian.
They say you can find all the answers by heading for the reference desk at your local library, where the person behind the counter is a detective, archaeologist and interpreter all in one. The most successful reference librarians combine a terrier’s persistence with an investigator’s flair for sleuthing. And they can be justifiably proud of their successes.
“We could look in a reference section and call other agencies and do interlibrary loans and feel you came to a reasonable end to things,” she said. “Now there’s an infinite number of things, millions of new Web pages added every day.” “
Librarians find ALL the answers?
Early in the article it says, “You can find all the answers by heading for the reference desk at your local library.”
Someday I’d like to read about questions that don’t get answered for whatever reason. These PR articles regularly make it sound like a librarian is superhuman. Yeah, they can find a lot of answers, but can they find them all?