David Weinberger of Everything is Miscellaneous wrote a nice summary of Thomas Mann's big-picture article, "The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries"
http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/06/25/why-we-need-librarians/

The original article by Mann, a response to the Calhoun report, is located at http://guild2910.org/Pelopponesian%20War%20June%2013%202007.pdf

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