Thursday, January 31, 2008
Who Will Be Us?
Here is an interesting British study entitled "Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future". It is a 35 page pdf, but easily browsed and full of interesting ideas. The "Google Generation" believes they are expert researchers when all indications are that the ability to do research is declining. Oh, there is more!
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"In fact, there is a
considerable danger that younger users will resent the
library invading what they regards as their space. There
is a big difference between `being where our users are’
and `being USEFUL to our users where they are’."
As one of those rebellious researching youngsters I second this.
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