From yesterday's Chicago Sun-times:
In an Age of Misinformation, Why Are There So Few Librarians at Chicago Public Schools?
The nation’s third-largest public school system with 290,000 students in 513 district-operated, non-charter schools, CPS has only about 90 schools with full-time librarians.
Librarians -- whaddya need them for? The article goes over a few good examples including:
"Leslie Westerberg, one of those recently laid off, said librarians also help students with research projects and finding accurate information online."
Worth a read.