End of an Era?

Workin' the ref desk tonight. I like to think that print resources are still valuable for ready reference, but experience isn't bearing that out. A student came in looking for "Material Safety Data Sheets," specifically on the toxicity of lye, and after a fruitless search through some print laboratory and chemical safety manuals, we found a bunch of sites on the Internet with free MSDS's. Reliable? I dunno, but the patron was satisfied, and I'm not sure it's my place to tell him what he really wants or needs. Then our Grumpy Old Man came in looking for birth and death dates for some Golden Age cinematographers. They weren't listed in our print Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, but the info was readily at hand in the Internet Movie Database, with which Grumpy Old Man was uncharacteristically pleased. Score two for the Web.