Librarians also help vendors organize the information in their databases in a logical fashion. You're probably wondering about now why I haven't mentioned distant learners once in this article. I have a final point to make about librarians and access to information. Librarians have an intrinsic belief that information should be equitably available to everyone, regardless of race, wealth, education and all other common designators of human worth. Philosophically, a distant learner is no different from any other learner who may need library services.
Librarians are certainly aware of the political and technical barriers.
They are busy applying their formidable and shared problem solving skills to those barriers daily.