Net Gen Students and Libraries Joan K. Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Disconnects - Net Gen and Libraries  Information Resources  Services  Environments

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Map Collections “ Ticker ”

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 British Museum website

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Contribution from Vectors

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Most information seekers want…

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 U. Alberta Library’s PDA Zone

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Grokker at Stanford

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Contribution from Vectors

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 U. Minnesota Library’s Blog Service

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 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?

CNI Spring Task Force Meeting April 4-5, 2005 Educating the Net Gen Edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger