>> in fact, librarians become ever more valuable as the volume of available material increases But we also have great tools to manage information, so now it be

>> in fact, librarians become ever more valuable as the volume of available material increases But we also have great tools to manage information, so now it becomes the classic battle of man vs machine and today , in order to be on top , you usually need to combine man and machine which requires a new type of librarian. A lot of of this works is about attacking various angles of curation and book discovery, tagging books with more in-depth tags to allow better discoverability, giving book reviews, building better search engines , talking with users about books , etc. But seeing this work mostly done by non traditional librarians, programmers and lay people, and rarely by librarians , i do wonder what role is left for traditional librarians.