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Anhang, Abe; Coffman, Steve – American Libraries, 2002
Summarizes speeches from a debate about the future of reference librarians. Highlights include a decline in traditional reference statistics; the growth of commercial online reference services; attempts to move traditional services to the Web; and users' needs for librarians to help them find authoritative, unbiased, free information. (LRW)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Retrieval, Librarians, Library Services
