More on Millennials

In the midst of teaching classes this week (accounting, journalism, and economics), I can share another item on Millennials. Wayne Bivens-Tatum, is the Philosophy and Religion Librarian at Princeton University, and his Academic Librarian blog has several posts tagged with Millennials, including a recent review of Mark Bauerlein's new book The Dumbest Generation (Wayne doesn't think they are.)

I'm off to do my last two presentations for fall semester (at least, those that are scheduled so far.) This term I've done hands-on sessions in our building, online demos on pc's in other buildings, one online Mac-based demo in another building, and this morning a road show with no computer. So I'm running the gamut.

Some Views of the Google Generation

My local academic library consortium is planning a discussion next month on the current generation of undergraduate students - Millennials, Generation Y, the Google Generation, etc. One of my colleagues has recommended this article from Inside Higher Ed: Understanding Students Who Were 'Born Digital'. And our library director shared with us the NELINET environmental scan, which has a couple of articles on Generation Y and the Google Generation. What our today's students doing, and expecting from us? What is changing in how students do research? This should be an interesting topic for discussion.