It's the pre-internet sources and Government employees fault and not the Reference Librarian as a profession. This is out of the US Library system only. Your "

It's the pre-internet sources and Government employees fault and not the Reference Librarian as a profession. This is out of the US Library system only. Your "Across the Board" = "Government documents and central reference areas of 26 U.S. libraries" Not your academic or local libraries that most of us think of as Librarians. I was a System's Librarian and contend that Librarians are needed more now more then ever due to the Internet but that is a different tale. One-Third the Librarians were let go in my state during the economic down turn). Reference Librarians should be quoting sources and I bet you a million dollars that a Reference Librarian gives you the source and it is the source that is wrong.