I came across this great blog post – 85 reasons to be thankful for librarians on the Zen College Life blog – on one of the email lists I subscribe to today. It specifically takes the student perspective on librarians and there is plenty of good material there, serious and light hearted. There’s everything from Reason18 Studies have shown libraries and librarians improve student test scores (I gather that these studies are mainly done at the K-12 level, but I would bet it is also true at the post-secondary level), reason 31: A library is much MUCH more well cataloged and organized than the Internet, and the surprisingly insightful reason 51: They are also less likely to be manipulated by individuals, like search engine optimizers. Go have a look!
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