Half a millennium ago, librarians were info custodians: acquirers, catalogers, curators, retrievers. Tûma had shown me photos of shy-looking people working in monastic silence amid dusty stacks.

Half a millennium ago, librarians were info custodians: acquirers, catalogers, curators, retrievers. Tûma had shown me photos of shy-looking people working in monastic silence amid dusty stacks.