Net Gen Students and Libraries

Joan K. Lippincott

Coalition for Networked Information

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A Matter of Perspective

“What we assumed was impatience is something they consider immediacy - responses are supposed to be fast.”

Oblinger and Oblinger, 2005, 1.2

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Net Gen and Libraries: Disconnects

Multi-media Figure it out Work in groups Multi-task

Text-based Learn from experts Individually based Logical, linear

Net Gen Students Libraries

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Disconnects - Net Gen and Libraries

Information Resources Services Environments

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Information Resources

Continue to integrate library information into Google

Offer simplified and graphic ways to approach searching

Integrate subject guides into CMS Integrate searching of “open” Web

resources with searching licensed materials

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Map Collections “Ticker”

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British Museum website

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Contribution from Vectorshttp://vectors.iml.annenberg.edu/

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Most information seekers want…

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Services

Use students on design teams Integrate services into CMS Explore services for mobile devices Represent services visually and use

multimedia in instruction Focus on partnership models Emphasize how to evaluate

information resources Emphasize information policy issues

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U. Alberta Library’s PDA Zone

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Grokker at Stanford

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Contribution from Vectors

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Environments

Provide individual and group learning spaces

Support access to and creation of information resources

Offer staff and faculty training Provide staff with wide range of skills Effectively market services Integrate physical spaces and services

with virtual Build community

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UC Merced Library

“The library will have a café and allow food and beverages in the stacks and reading areas…Large, flat-screen digital monitors may hang like picture frames on the walls, displaying information or images from the digitized special collections.”

“The Birth of a Research University,” CHE, v.51, Issue 30, p. A24

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Virtual 3-D Models in the Library

It is 2012 and most research libraries are now outfitted with real-time, immersive theaters…”Users of the theater feel as if they are right in the middle of the subject of their study - be it ancient Rome, the three stable members of the C2H4O Group of isotomers, the interacting galaxy NBC 4038/9 in Corvus, or the geological stratigraphy of Mars. At will, users can fly over Earth and, moving a time bar, set themselves down at any one of several hundred sites of great importance to humanity’s cultural history.”

Bernard Frischer, The Ultimate Internet Café. CLIR, 2005

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U. Minnesota Library’s Blog Service

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Comments and Discussion

Is the notion of Net Gen students a myth or hype?

Why shouldn’t students learn to use our sophisticated information systems?

What are some inexpensive ways to adapt to Net Gen preferences?

What examples can you add that illustrate new content, services, and environments tailored to Net Gen students?

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Educating the Net Gen

http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666&ID=pub7101

Edited by Diana G. Oblinger andJames L. Oblinger