1. Young and Wired How today’s young tech elite will influence the libraries of tomorrow 11.03.06 Mary Madden Tampa Bay Library Consortium Annual Meeting

2. Young and Wired November 3, 20062 Way back in 1993, the internet was… “headless, anarchic, million-limbed” and “spreading like bread-mold” - Bruce Sterling

3. Young and Wired November 3, 20063 Internet Marketing 101 Why use the internet? Freedom Free information and communication tools It belonged to everyone and no one These are some of the same values we associate with libraries…

4. Young and Wired November 3, 20064 Libraries are the living internet… Libraries are connected nodes of information and community exchange that we use to communicate, collaborate, share resources and preserve knowledge.

5. Young and Wired November 3, 20065 Internet and Broadband Adoption 1996-2006 All internet - 147 mill. Broadband - 83 mill.

6. Young and Wired November 3, 20066 Internet Access at Libraries 98.4% of public library branches in the U.S. now offer public internet access 63.3% of public library branches offer connection speeds of greater than 769kbps http://www.ii.fsu.edu

7. Young and Wired November 3, 20067 Beyond the Digital Divide Libraries are well-equipped to serve patrons at the most crucial points in technology adoption – during introductory and educational stages and at times when a high-quality, reliable connection is otherwise unavailable Internet access is best understood as a spectrum, rather than a simple online vs. offline divide.

8. Young and Wired November 3, 20068 Libraries and Information Overload The more we become overwhelmed with information and gadget overload, the more we need librarians to help us make sense of it all…

9. Young and Wired November 3, 20069 Libraries & Teens Teens need libraries, but are among the least likely to recognize what they have to offer. OCLC study finds that teens and college students consider search engines a better “lifestyle fit” for their information needs. While more than 50% described search engines as a perfect information source, just 17% described libraries this way. Teenagers are increasingly becoming library immigrants in a land of library natives.

10. Young and Wired November 3, 200610 Where Teens and Libraries Meet Teens  Technology  Libraries 1. Both use technology to connect to people and information

11. Young and Wired November 3, 200611 Where Teens and Libraries Meet 2. Both Teens and Libraries have experienced a great deal of change in a very short period of time: Internet connectivity at public libraries rose from 20.9% to essentially 100% in less than 10 years (FSU, “Public Libraries and the Internet 2006”). Teens are also in the midst of major changes in identity and expectations.

12. Young and Wired November 3, 200612 Where Teens and Libraries Meet 3. Both Teens and Libraries will always know something the other doesn’t know. Teens can’t find everything they need to know with Google. Libraries can learn from teens who are ambitious internet explorers and often at the leading edge of technology trends.

13. Young and Wired November 3, 200613 Today’s Teen – Born 1990 Personal computers are 15 years old Tim Berners-Lee writes World Wide Web program

14. Young and Wired November 3, 200614 Today’s Teen – First Grade 1996 Palm Pilot goes on the market

15. Young and Wired November 3, 200615 Today’s Teen – Fourth Grade 1999 Sean Fanning creates Napster

16. Young and Wired November 3, 200616 Today’s Teen – Starts Middle School 2001 Wikipedia - 2001

17. Young and Wired November 3, 200617 Today’s Teen – Middle School 2001

18. Young and Wired November 3, 200618 Today’s Teen – Middle School 2003 Skype - 2003

19. Young and Wired November 3, 200619 Today’s Teen – Starts High School 2004 Podcasts – 2004

20. Young and Wired November 3, 200620 Today’s Teen – Sophomore Year 2005 YouTube – 2005

21. Young and Wired November 3, 200621 Today’s Teen – Junior Year 2006 The Year of MySpace: More than 100 million accounts created Third most popular site in the U.S. (after Yahoo and Google)

22. Young and Wired November 3, 200622 Teen Reality #1 Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world: 83% of all teens say that “most” of the people they know use the internet 10% say that “some” of the people they know use the internet. Just 6% say that very few of the people they know use the internet.

23. Young and Wired November 3, 200623 Teen Reality #2 Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere 84% report owning at least one personal media device: a desktop or laptop computer, a cell phone or a Personal Digital Assistant 44% say they have two or more devices

24. Young and Wired November 3, 200624 Laptops 32% of teens own laptops 30% of adults own laptops

25. Young and Wired November 3, 200625 MP3 Players 45% of teens own MP3 Players 20% of adults own MP3 players CBSMarketwatch survey 6.13.06

26. Young and Wired November 3, 200626 Teen Reality #3 Teens are multimedia multi-taskers: Multi-tasking is a way of life – and people live in a state of “continuous partial attention” --- Linda Stone

27. Young and Wired November 3, 200627 Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005

28. Young and Wired November 3, 200628 Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March 2005

29. Young and Wired November 3, 200629 Teen Reality #4 Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and storytellers 57% of online teens have created some kind of content for the internet

30. Young and Wired November 3, 200630 33% of online teens share their own creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos Sharing Creative Work

31. Young and Wired November 3, 200631 32% have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends or school assignments Working for Others

32. Young and Wired November 3, 200632 22% report keeping their own personal webpage Personal Webpages

33. Young and Wired November 3, 200633 19% have created their own online journal or blog Creating a Blog

34. Young and Wired November 3, 200634 Remixing 19% of all online teens say they remix content they find online into their own artistic creations 35% of teen bloggers remix content

35. Young and Wired November 3, 200635 Teen Reality #5 Today's online teens have grown up amidst the chaos of the digital copyright debate, and it shows

36. Young and Wired November 3, 200636 Impact and Implications Those who have grown up with interactive media want to manipulate, remix, and share content. Ideas about intellectual property and fair use change They expect to be in conversation with other creators.

37. Young and Wired November 3, 200637 Impact and Implications Conversations, research, and learning never end Expectations about another’s “availability” change and spontaneous communications increase Teens hope they can get help from peers and teachers and librarians whenever they need it

38. Young and Wired November 3, 200638 Libraries 2.0 The library of the future is… Web-enabled and participatory Valued as a physical space Made of people!

39. Young and Wired November 3, 200639 Thank you! Mary Madden Senior Research Specialist Pew Internet & American Life Project 1615 L Street NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 mmadden@pewinternet.org 202-419-4500