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Just beginning to enter the workplace, Millennials have never known a world that wasn't connected by email, instant messages, text messages, and the Internet. For libraries, the challenge is clear: how do we serve older and more established clientele, yet sustain progress? How do we welcome this new generation into our professional midst?

These 18 chapters explore the pervasiveness of change: in personnel selection and training; budget planning; marketing and promotion; fund raising; health issues for staff and clientele; retirement and recruitment; staying current; inter-library and inter-agency cooperation; joint-use facilities; furnishing and refurnishing; evaluating and selecting new format materials and technologies; and lifelong learning. Each offers practical experience and advice which, regardless of type of library, is adaptable to all.

For managers and would-be managers of libraries everywhere, and anyone who provides service to a younger demographic.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xiii)
• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part I Where Are We?
• 1 The Library as Place in the New Millennium: Domesticating Space and Adapting Learning Spaces(p. 3)
• Part II Serving Millennials
• 2 Reflection and Thinking and All of That Stuff: Learning, Engagement, and the Net Generation(p. 15)
• 3 Baby Boomers and Generation Y in the Public Library: Keeping Them Both Happy. An Australian Perspective(p. 31)
• 4 Reaching Out to Gen Y: Adapting Library Roles and Policies to Meet the Information Needs of the Next Generation(p. 46)
• 5 Deconstructing Librarians' Fascination with Gamer Culture: Toward Making Academic Libraries Venues for Quiet Contemplation(p. 55)
• Part III Millennials and Information Literacy
• 6 Remodeling the Ivory Tower: Information Literacy and the Modern University Library(p. 75)
• 7 Enhancing Library Instruction: Creating and Managing Online Interactive Library Tutorials for a Wired Generation(p. 90)
• 8 Educating the Millennial User(p. 104)
• 9 ESL Students and Technology in the College Library(p. 114)
• Part IV Managerial Concerns
• 10 Connecting Diversity to Management: Further Insights(p. 123)
• Part V Community College and School Perspectives
• 11 Community College Libraries/Learning Resource Centers Meet the Generation Y Challenge(p. 161)
• 12 "I Want It All and I Want It Now!": The Changing Face of School Libraries(p. 173)
• Part VI Some Examples
• 13 A Traditional Library Meets Twenty-First Century Users(p. 183)
• 14 Planning an Information Commons: Our Experiences at the University of Toledo's Carlson Library(p. 206)
• 15 Renewing the Tech-Forward Library: Information Commons Development at the University Library of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis(p. 225)
• Part VII Hope for the Future
• 16 What's Old Is New Again: Library Services and the Millennial Student(p. 241)
• Part VIII Bibliographic Essays
• 17 Evaluation and Selection of New Format Materials: Electronic Resources(p. 257)
• 18 Libraries and the Millennials: Changing Priorities(p. 266)
• Index(p. 291)
• About the Editors and Contributors(p. 301)

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Booklist Review

Developments in technology have enabled a decentralization of information and data. Also, the U.S. population, especially those born after 1985, have an expectation of immediate gratification for their information and data needs and are less discriminating than earlier generations. Several chapters in this new title discuss the millennials children of the baby boomers and digital natives and how they have already had an impact on library service. For example, one chapter addresses Enhancing Library Instruction to reach millennials and digital natives online. Other chapters address the Information or Learning Commons, marketing and promotion, fund-raising, evaluating and selecting new-format materials and technologies, and lifelong learning. Each chapter offers practical advice based on experiences, and each includes a list of references. Library managers and those aspiring to be managers will find help in providing services for a younger demographic.--Awe, Susan Copyright 2008 Booklist

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James R. Kennedy is the University Librarian at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Lisa Vardaman is the Education/Instructional Media Librarian at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama.

Gerard B. McCabe is the retired Director of Libraries at Clarion University in Clarion, Pennsylvania.