Desk Set, or, I Welcome our Google Overlords

I'm watching the Tracy-Hepburn film Desk Set(1957), which concerns the installation of a new-fangled computer in the research department of a TV network. It's pretty amazing - runs natural language searches and everything. As dated as the depicted technology is, it's amazingly prescient in this age of librarians trying to make peace with the rise of Google and the idea that books and libraries are somehow obsolete because "everything's on the Internet." Having done a fair amount of research, I can say that knowledge of a subject combined with the power of the 'net can be pretty awesome. Boolean logic skills, creative keyword deployment (synonyms!), and resource evaluation - these are the tools that a good librarian brings to a information problem. I've watched kids go trolling for answers in Google only to come up empty-handed because they don't know search strategies - they don't know how to construct effective search strings using Boolean operators and wildcards. Google doesn't make you a researcher any more than Photoshop makes you a graphic designer or Reason makes you a producer.