ABSTRACT
It is a puzzle to me that people call themselves librarians who spend all their time slogging through the electronic morass called information retrieval. This condition, describable as computeritis, has created mischief that is going to be hard to counteract. And, because I look at what is happening with mixed contempt and despair, I have set myself the task of discovering just what the difference is between the old and trusted librarianship and that in which canned and automated data is resorted to first and foremost.
