Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:30:26 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh Dear Friends, Let us be honest! Do not we ourselves go quickly go to google. And let us be frank, most of the times, it serves our purpose. We do not always need a comprehensive overview of all the [quality] literature available to answer our query. We do not always need a comprehensive literature search. Two or three hits answer our query. Trust, what the users say!!!! People are breaking free and are becoming self-reliant! They need less dependency on specialists. Do not we indulge in Self-Medication? Earlier we use to lose money through share-brokers. Now we can do the same ourselves, Online!!. --Sukhdev Singh On Apr 5, 2005 1:52 PM, Dr. Murari P Tapaswi wrote:

Colleagues, The article Shri Sukhdev Singh pointed to is interesting in today's context. It ends saying "Getting authoritative information sources to potential users" is the job of Librarians and Libraries, besides so many points in favour of libraries.

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