A recent story in the San Jose Mercury News looked at the changing role of libraries and librarians. Many libraries around the country are trying to provide high-tech assistance to customers. Joseph Janes , a professor at the UW's Information School, said that can be a challenge.
People feel really good about libraries.
They love libraries. But they also think of it as a place to go for books. While scientists have virtually completed mapping the human genome, there is much left untold about what makes humans tick. The Dallas Morning News recently asked UW molecular biologist Stan Fields about the effort to understand the proteome. The proteome is a complex set of proteins.