We're sorry to report that nowhere in this article are info pros (and most importantly the skills they offer are (e.g. info literacy) are mentioned. The same goes for the many databases and reference books that MANY libraries (of all types) provide 24x7 without having to leave your home or office.
In the age of Google and Wikipedia, one can in theory find any fact at any hour of the day. But still the question remains: Can we believe what we read?
A.J. Jacobs, humorist and author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Know-It-All," a memoir of the year he spent reading all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, says that trying to figure out the reliability of information these days is a hugely confusing problem.
"I think we're all walking around in a big Saharan data sandstorm," Jacobs said.
But it wasn't always this way. People used to live in an "information monarchy," where the New York Times, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and other top publications set the standard, Jacobs said.
"Now it’s more of an information democracy," he added, "or maybe an information anarchy, which is great in some ways, since we have so much more information out there, but it brings with it a boatload of confusion and chaos and uncertainty."
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