That data didn't just magically migrate to a hard drive. Librarians are often leading and coordinating the digitization of archives One of the biggest problems

That data didn't just magically migrate to a hard drive. Librarians are often leading and coordinating the digitization of archives One of the biggest problems facing the biological sciences (and scientific research in general) is an exponential rise in the amount of data being generated, but an inability to catalogue and store the information, much less understand it. Modern librarians are inter-disciplinary problem solvers, often embedded in with faculty and researchers, responsible for indexing and archiving a rapidly increasing amount of information. Plus, books books have thus far proven to be a more durable storage medium than all digital options in current usage. Without them, a solar flare or nuclear war could cause the modern equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria