Despite the successful creation of these library and information services, I like to believe my most significant professional accomplishment has been the stimulation of ideas. To paraphrase Socrates, I hope to have been a gadfly to the principles of librarianship. Traditionally, librarianship has concerned itself with the collection, organization, dissemination, archiving, and sometimes evaluation of information. With the advent of computers, people can do many of these functions without the need of libraries nor librarians. Computers have empowered these people.
Computers can empower librarianship as well.
The services I have been able to create are demonstrations to this fact. In conclusion, it has been said that understanding is a four-rung ladder. The first rung is data. The second rung is data organized and given value, information. Information internalized and put to use is knowledge, representing the third rung.