Once upon a time librarians worked with books, and books alone. These days they deal in information. It's not enough to know how to catalog. Modern librarians employ technology in order to locate, collate and disseminate information to a diverse audience. In order to do so, they HAVE to keep up with the latest technologies out there.
Courses on computing are a must for library science programs as information literacy is intrinsically tied to computer literacy in this century. And information literacy isn't nearly as simple as it sounds. These days anyone with the ability to use Google thinks they're a wiz at finding information but are they really?
Do they know where to find the best information? Which sources are more reliable? Do they even know that as glorious as Google is (and search engines in general are), that there are hidden places it can't reach? The invisible Web, or Deep Web, could swallow the Surface Web (all the goodies that search engines can find) whole and still feel peckish. Crawling the Deep Web takes skills and they're skills everyone librarian should be working on developing.
