overwhelmed with information

I feel like all of this technology and information sharing in the web 2.0 world is great but I often feel that we overwhelm patrons with information. They want a monologue that is suitable for a teenage girl trying out for a performing arts high school and we give them 5 books, 6 websites, 3 articles and 6 related blogs and then their eyes glaze over or they have now become afraid of the amount of information that we are able to access for them. Is that really the future of librarianship?