"How can government information librarians best take advantage of the challenges in our profession?" First and foremost, there is a need to reaffirm our values and recognize that our goal of providing access to government information remains the same. How we most effectively achieve that goal requires that we:

• educate ourselves in the use of new technologies,
• recognize our changing patron base,
• develop new instruction programs to facilitate patron success in an online environment,
• take advantage of the skills and expertise of colleagues, and
• shift our energies from providing access to the physical collection to an online collection.

Source: Government Documents at the Dawn of the New Millenium in the "Documents News from Around the Country" section.

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