tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post114002702294770730..comments2024-03-19T16:26:45.863-04:00Comments on Digitization 101: Thinking about the MillennialsJill Hurst-Wahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16355882159165026398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post-1140290219485193142006-02-18T14:16:00.000-05:002006-02-18T14:16:00.000-05:00Thanks for pointing me to your post. I think under...Thanks for pointing me to your post. I think understanding how Millennials use technology is important for us who can still remember when it was a novelty to see web addresses at the end of commercials on TV. For them, as you say, it's something they take for granted, but they possess certain expectations about technology that, when not met, gives them the impression of being old and out-of-date and not worth their time. Libraries, in my opinion, really have their work cut out for them if they don't want to fall into that trap. When I followed the discussions about the term Library 2.0, I saw that it focused on how libraries could appeal to the Millenial generation. That is what appealed to me, but with time I realized that most of it applied to public libraries, especially things like game nights, etc. Myself, I'm more interested in academic libraries and I wonder how the expectations of Millenials can be applied to that setting. For example, ask the newspaper industry how they are doing with respect to those in their mid-twenties and younger and I expect you will see a worried look on their faces. I'm twenty-six and I haven't read an actual, physical newspaper in years. I get my news online. I don't watch the nightly news or the local news. If I want to check on sports or the weather, I get online. I don't want to wait until the eleven o'clock news to find out those things. The idea of immediate satisfaction for information needs is one we must understand. Technology today has created a situation in which we expect to find answers quickly and easily. Unfortunately, academic research is not like that, so we are discovering a problem with no easy solution.Travis Ennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18258874749014094141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137713.post-1140217223671635092006-02-17T18:00:00.000-05:002006-02-17T18:00:00.000-05:00Sounds like an interesting workshop! I have to adm...Sounds like an interesting workshop! I have to admit, Millennials are somewhat of a mystery to me when it comes to technology. My gf is 22. She is very into technology, with her iPod, MySpace site, IM-ing, etc., but she has absolutely no interest in how all of it works, and no patience for anything that doesn't work instantly or that has a learning curve. She feels that, since the technology exists to make things easy, it should be used in all instances.<BR/><BR/>Teaching her to research using library databases was a chore (you mean there isn't just one interface?!)<BR/><BR/>Thank you for pointing your students to my blog, and I LOVE theirs! I've long wished for an annotated list of good digital projects, and you've got the beginnings of one there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com