Although no doubt spoken tongue-in-cheek, I suspect that Oscar Wilde might have a different opinion were he alive today, because the Internet has made useless information an epidemic. In 2012, finding useless information is easy. But finding reliable, authoritative, meaningful information? Now that’s hard. These days we’re assaulted by information from everywhere, and with such volume and speed that it’s impossible to absorb even a fraction of the amount we encounter each day, never-mind determining which bits are actually relevant to our daily lives. When it comes to finding information we need, the expression ‘‘drinking from a fire hose’’ has never been more apt. If you happen to work for an innovative, forward-thinking organization, where the value of information and its importance to success is well understood, consider yourself lucky. You probably have at your disposal a corporate library and at least one librarian (a.k.a. Information Specialist, Knowledge Manager, Cybrarian, Information Broker, etc.). These aren’t your grandmother’s libraries, mind you. If you are imagining a quaint place where books go to collect dust, protected by a shushing, hair-bunwearing matron, think again. Modern corporate libraries are like hive-minds; acquiring, filtering, synthesizing and distributing information where it’s needed most, keeping organizations vital and relevant. They are staffed by experts with graduate degrees in Library and Information Science, who know the ins and outs of searching the Internet and commercial literature databases. (These are the people who actually use obscure search operators.) They find information ranging from refereed literature to codes and standards to patents and market intelligence. Some manage vast virtual libraries containing no physical documents at all. In an age where separating good information from the irrelevant is increasingly difficult, libraries and librarians are more crucial than ever. Far from being