Reaching Out to Gen Y Library Users


	Reaching Out to Gen Y Library Users

frogtuxedo

6-27-2007 10:08 AM

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Avoid implying to students that there is a single, correct way of doing things.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Offer online services not just through e-mail, but through instant messaging and text messaging, which many students prefer.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Hold LAN parties, after hours, in libraries. (These are parties where many people bring their computers to play computer games, especially those involving teams, together.)</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Schedule support services on a 24/7/365 basis, not the hours currently in use at many college libraries, which were “set in 1963.”</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Remember that students are much less sensitive about privacy issues than earlier generations were and are much more likely to share passwords or access to databases.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Look for ways to involve digital natives in designing library services and even providing them. “Expertise is more important than credentials,” he said, even credentials such as library science degrees.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Play more video games.</LI>
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