It is of note that the 2002 McGraw Hill Homeschooling Companion also barely mentions the Internet except to extol the uses of web publishing and to give a listing of search engines that may be of use. This, in a two hundred odd pages of resources and suggestions for homeschooling is a compelling absence.

It is obvious that there is still a strong attachment to print sources, and also to the nature and use of libraries as public institutions. If we use the metaphor of transportation; plane and rail travel did not make other modes of transportation obsolete, they complemented them. Public libraries and librarians will not be made obsolete by the Internet. Librarians have a role to play in ensuring access to technology, providing free and unbiased information, and assisting patrons to distinguish between the good, the bad, and the ugly of online resources.

As well, Librarians work and lobby for social connectedness, in promoting the creation of the "information commons" as a means of producing and sharing interactive resources in a not-for-profit, collective manner.

Public service in a digital age, is still public service. The tools used and the materials to be managed are simply different.