She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.
Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.__nd information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert _ you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it__ more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you__e trying to find a specific flower,_ Gaiman said. __nyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they__e doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they__e doing.
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Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.__nd information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert _ you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it__ more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you__e trying to find a specific flower,_ Gaiman said. __nyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they__e doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they__e doing.
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