Library Thing is a little confusing. It's a book cataloging site, with various resources including author information and book reviews. It's basically an online book club (a really HUGE book club) where people can store books in their own electronic libraries, share them with others, post questions on forums, and join common-interest groups.

This article, 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Libraryrebuts the popular claim that the Internet renders libraries obsolete.

Culture is dynamic

Jumping off the Disintermediation Bandwagon:

Reharmonizing LIS Education for the Realities of the 21st Century

from the abstract: "More than a mere deskilling, disintermediation implies the complete removal of professional information intermediaries from key components of the information seeking processes of our clients. It is obvious that LIS education must be reconfigured to reflect the realities of disintermediation. Details of such a reconfiguration are open to debate; however, it is becoming evident that the acquisition of expertise in the theoretical underpinnings of information retrieval systems can no longer be an optional component of LIS education"

I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner - a library comic strip.

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"If the avalanche of information that daily attacks each one of us is a social illness, the person who lives side by side with the patient trying to identify, on the basis of profound etiological experience, the best therapy, should be considered as the "family doctor". This professional figure is represented by the librarian who carries out a profession that has never so much as now acted as a bulwark against the definitive barbarization of the spirit" Dealing with information overload: a reflection on pathologies from information excess

Myths About Electronic Learning Resources

The Library of Congress

According to the following web page, the Library of Congress (LC) cataloging system is used in every college/university in the country. The page gives a brief explanation of the system: Library of Congress Classification System