By Larry Keller
CNN.com/career Senior Writer
(CNN) -- "We see now that the Internet is such a huge amoeba."
Walter Gegner is supervisor of the art, music and video department at the Minneapolis Public Library.
"It's going off in every direction and there's no one profession, no one group of individuals that knows everything going on with the Internet."
Lucky thing for librarians.
With seemingly infinite research data at the fingertips of everybody linked to the Internet, you might think reference librarians are doomed to go the route of door-to-door salesmen and elevator operators.
Instead, many Internet users have found the information glut daunting and confusing. And frequently, it's a reference librarian they turn to make sense of it.
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Posted November 29, 2000