Librarians operate as critical information nodes. They can encourage potential homeschoolers and steer them quickly to helpful resources or, conversely, discourage them with incorrect information or even negative resources. For example, a librarian may depend upon government agencies instead of homeschooling advocates to answer a budding homeschooler's questions, simply because librarians are not aware of advocacy resources. MORE: http://www.hslda.org/courtreport/V20N4/V20N403.asp
