Link to techdirt post, "Wall Street Journal Gets Rid Of Its Research Librarian".Mike Masnick suggests that the Wall Street Journal did the right thing.
But of course....
(a) research librarians are quite good at what they do, and
(b) they provide a truly valuable service.
But just think how groovy it would be if WSJ were willing to replace the lost librarians with a crowd-sourced or "open" research process.
Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd would be dead by now.
Yeah, those librarian are good, but really, anyone can do what they do. All it takes, Mike asserts, is access. So what if you don't know beans about searching.
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