Because we can't go beyond the authorities, we can't see the problems in fresh, innovative, and creative ways. Today's student is more empowered to do original research, or at least to approach research originally, than at any time in recent memory. Modern Libraries Libraries today are much more complex than libraries have been in the past. Libraries are no longer collections of books and journals with cards in drawers that point to them. Today's library is an electronic atmosphere, and your success in that atmosphere depends on an array of skills most of us haven't learned.
Libraries are dynamic places.
Things change rapidly. You need sophisticated skills to make this environment work for you. But this freedom comes with responsibility . They want you to learn to navigate the information landscape, and they know that the modern library is a rapidly changing and evolving system. They want you to engage that system in a meaningful and aggressive way.