Thursday, July 21, 2011

Generation-D at the library

Generation-D is the students who was  born in the digital age. They are also called "digital natives." For them computer is not the new technology (really?) They prefer typing rather note-taking in the classroom. Librarians and professors must have IT skills to teach this particular groups of students. Some librarians suggest that the traditional librray bibliographic instruction classes are no longer relevant to Generation-D students. I will argue that IT skills are not the vital part of information literacy. Additionally, when we focus on serving the Generation-D students, we migth unintentionally ignore for the non-tradiitonal students who are in the same classroom with the Genration-D students. Librarians still play a very important part of providing information access services to students, whether they are the Generatin-D students or mature students.

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