Library 2.0

After reading the articles and a few others over the course of working in libraries, I find that so many librarians feel they need to change what a librarian is just for web 2.0. I don't think we are changing the role of the librarian, but just the resources that a librarian uses to provide information to the patron.
Instead of relying on posters or fliers to promote library programs and events, a librarian can use a social network page, or rss feeds to get the information out to the patron. Or interacting with a patron over IMs or a messageboard instead of talking face to face or on the phone. There is not fundamental difference in how a librarian does their job, just what they use to do that job.
Sometimes I wonder if they had this much discussion when the telephone was invented. Or when the printing press made books more available. Neither of these inventions change the fundamentals of being a librarian just what was used to do that job.
Web 2.0 does open up several new lines of communication with patrons. It also opens up new lines of miscommunication. With the ability to send information out quicker means a much more deliberate need to make sure that information is correct and clearly understood. But shouldn't put fear in the librarians for using this new technology to do their jobs.
I was once told that a librarian was the gatekeeper to information. I never agreed with that idea. Librarians are more the guide/scout to information. It is our jobs to navigate where the information is and find what is needed and take the patron to that point. Web 2.0 will allow us to do this quicker and more efficiently than before.