<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92fa09bd-4518-47b1-992d-823d4aaa88d2/720BDB3E-5EDE-4F6B-BEDE-B454D2450B57/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/25/games" href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/25/games" style="font-size: 11px;">insidehighered.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/25/games"><H1 class="pagehed">When ‘Digital Natives’ Go to the Library</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/25/games"><UL> <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> </UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/720BDB3E-5EDE-4F6B-BEDE-B454D2450B57/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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