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What is the role of libraries in the google generation? Presented by: Kelly Sirett For: ISI 5102 – Organization of Information Professor Susan Hempinstall November 5, 2012 (Image from: www.google.ca )
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What is the role of libraries in the google generation?
Presented by: Kelly Sirett
For: ISI 5102 – Organization of Information
Professor Susan Hempinstall
November 5, 2012
(Image from: www.google.ca)
The relationship between
libraries and Google
Google generation, digital
natives and information
obesity... oh my!
Research, education and
the physical environment:
then & now
Evolution or de-evolution?
Outline
Libraries and Google seem to have a common
goal – to provide access to information.
The difference lies in how information is defined
and provided.
Both Libraries and Google rely on one another.
Libraries are responsible for choosing the extent
of the relationship they have with Google.
Libraries vs. Google
What
is the
Generation?
People, born after 1993,
growing up in a world dominated
by the internet.
(Rowlands, 2008, 292)
digital
natives
1. Expect fast responses
2. Prefer images to text
3. Able to multi-task
4. Impatient
5. Adaptable
6. Comfortable with technology
7. Collaborative
Why is this
important to us?
What should
libraries do…if
anything?
• Research
• Education
• Physical environment
Libraries: then & now
Are We
Evolving or
De-Evolving?
Comments or
questions?
ReferencesRobinson, M. (2008). Digital nature and digital nurture: libraries, learning and the digital native. Library Management, 29 (1/2), 67-76.
Rowlands, I, et al. (2008). The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 60 (4), 290-310.
Thornton, S. (2010). From ‘‘Scuba Diving’’ to ‘‘Jet Skiing’’? Information Behavior, Political Science, and the Google Generation. Journal of Political Science Education, 6, 353–368.
Waller, V. (2009). The relationship between public libraries and Google: Too much information. First Monday, 14(9). Retrieved 10/29, 2012, from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279
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