What we need, then, is someone to teach our young how to look for, and find, answers -- including answers that have been deliberately obscured or hidden. What we need our librarians to teach, then, is independence -- something our kidnapperphobic, terrorphobic, suburban-sprawl world has deprived them of. The biggest issue here is that our governments fear independent thought and strive to rip  both the means and the concepts from us faster than we can distribute them.