The Net Gen Meets Melvil Dewey or We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
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The Net Gen Meets Melvil Dewey
or We’re Not in
Kansas Anymore
Toronto Public Library: Information Services ConferenceInformation Service in the 21st Century
November 23, 2005
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Michael RidleyChief Information Officer & Chief
LibrarianUniversity of Guelph
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The Net Generation is different.
They think differently, they act differently, and they want libraries to behave differently.
The Bottom Line......
Who are these people?What are we going to do?
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Melvil and Dorothy
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I’m an academic librarian.
Worse than that, I’m now a University administrator.
However......
Disclaimer
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The Disconnect
“Today’s students are no longer the people
our educational system was designed to teach.” ...Marc Prensky
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Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants
“Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language
(that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach
a population that speaks an entirely new language.” ...Marc Prensky
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“When simple change becomes transformational
change, the desire for continuity becomes a dysfunctional mirage.”
The Mirage of Continuity (1999) Hawkins & Battin
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“The library of the future will combine …
… with a managed digital space.”
... a managed place …
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StewardshipDemocracy
ServiceRationalism
PrivacyEquity of Access
Intellectual FreedomLiteracy and Learning
Our Enduring Values
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Product of the Environment
Video games
Computers
GenerationGenerationXX
The Web
Mobile devices
IM
Online communities
Net GenNet GenBaby Baby BoomersBoomers
TV generationTypewritersMemos
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Media Exposure
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E-mailsE-mails
VideoVideo
GamesGames
ReadingReading
TelevisionTelevision
CellCell PhonePhone
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Teen’s Web Use
100% use the Internet to seek information on colleges, careers and jobs
74% of teens use IM as a major communication vehicle vs. 44% of online adults
54% of students (grades 7-12) know more IM screen names than home phone numbers
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What They Want from the Net
New & exciting
0 80604020
Learnmore/better
Community
Show otherswhat I can do
Be heard
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Multitasking While Online
Listen to music while online
Watch TV while online
Talk on phone while online
Visit a site mentioned by someone on the phone
Send an IM to person you’re talking to
Visit website seen on TV
Visit website mentioned on radio
0 40 60 80
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Age vs. Online Preferences
Mature
63% Boomer
55%Gen X
38%
Net Gen26%
Students who were satisfied by
web-based learning
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Students Compared to Faculty
Multitasking Single or limited tasks
Engaging DisciplinedSpontaneous Deliberate
Pictures, sound, video TextRandom access Linear, logical, sequentialInteractive & networked Independent & individual
Students Faculty
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Learning Preferences
• Teams, peer-to-peer
• Structure
• Engagement & experience
• Visual & kinesthetic
• Things that matter
Towards the Digital Library
Three Key Transformations
From
Database/Repository
toEnvironment
(Managed Digital Space)
Seamless(fully integrated with
digital learningand research; beyond?)
Community(resources, people, interaction, process, activities, services)
Omnipresent(it will be wherever the users are)
Dynamic & Organic(the users will construct it as much as we will)
From
Information Management
to
Knowledge Management
Explicit & Tacit Knowledge(beyond recorded information)
Coherence & Sense Making(value added outcomes
and benefits)
People Centric(a focus on understanding not just data)
Trusted Information Systems(status, reputation, influence, impact)
Wireless Communication(whenever, wherever, right now)
From
People Finding Information
to
Information Finding People
Intelligent AgentsPersonal Information Systems(discovery, assistance, utility)
Smart Information(telemetry, propagation)
Managing People’s Interests(trusted information systems)
Control(users not systems)
Web 2.0
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Web 2.0
Blogs
Wikis
Syndication (RSS)
Tagging
Social Networking
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Web 2.0: Implications
The ILS is Dead
Interoperability / Standards
“We’re in Control.” Say What!?
Living on the Bleeding Edge
Lib 2.0
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Paul SaffoInstitute for the Future
“The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.”
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Paul SaffoInstitute for the Future
“The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.”
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Paul SaffoInstitute for the Future
“The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but to those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.”
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Blogs@Guelph
• Support and encourage blogging for all faculty, students and staff.
• Enable discourse, reading/writing, engagement, reflection.
• Learn the dynamics and the culture.
• Expect excitement, yawns .... and some fireworks.
Learning Commons
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Learning CommonsNot
Information Commons
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Strategic Directions
Research-intensive
Learner-centred
University of Guelph
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The University of Guelph is determined to put the learner at the
centre of all it does, recognizing that a great university is a community of scholars, that research and teaching
are intimately linked, and that learning is a life-long commitment.
Learner Centred
D-oh!
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• a consolidation of services to support student learning, writing, research & technology
• a common, convenient and accessible location with extended hours of operation
• a vehicle for new collaborative opportunities
Learning Commons
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Learning
WritingResearch
NumeracyInformationTechnology
Five Pillars
Embedded Services
Supplemental Services
Integrated Services
Generic skills; resources; information & awareness
Specially designed sessions & workshops
Collaborations with faculty & TAs embedded in the learning experience
Frameworkfor
Design & Delivery
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Integrated Desks
Peer Helpers
Service & LearningParadigms
Food, Drink & Noise
Wireless & Laptop Loans
Five Interesting Things....
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• Increased use of all resources• Higher student achievement• Integration of services (synergy) • Understanding of student/faculty needs• Integrated planning & budgeting• Engagement & motivation• Student satisfaction
Measures of Success
Post Literacy
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The Premise.....
Just as the powerful capabilities of literacy effectively displaced
primary orality, so too is it not only likely but inevitable that literacy will
be displaced by a more powerful tool, capability or capacity.
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Post literacy is not
a decline from literacy
The Corollary.....
• 1st year seminar course
• vehicle for student learning in a small group setting
• multidisciplinary focus
• provocative ideas & active learning
• research program model
UNIV1200Beyond Literacy: Are Reading and Writing
Doomed?
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stories and song words and texts
communication was formalized around speakers (poets) and
audience
communication was formalized around objects and readers
memory & performance logic & composition
active, external, temporal, physical (body)
passive, internal, persistent, physical (object)
“magical” “rational”
Orality Literacy
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• clarity & precision• expressive & nuanced • persistent; overcome time & space • individual & group; create community & enable individual identity • active & passive• advantageous
Characteristics of Post Literacy
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Disruption
Suspicion & Distrust
Loss
Unsophisticated
Early adopters
Elitism & Power
Mainstream
Transition
The Impact.....
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Bio-Computing
Unused Capacity of the Brain
Telepathy / Collective Unconscious
Genetic Memory
Post Humans
The Candidates.....
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Neurally interfaced ICT complementing
natural telepathysupported by
genetic memory.
The Conclusion.....
Candidates for Post Literacy
Aliens
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William Burroughs
“Language is a virus
from outer space.”
David Penniman
School of
InformaticsUniversity at Buffalo
“To remain what it is, the library must change . . .
. . . if it does not change, it will not remain what it is.”
DavidPennimanUniversityat Buffalo
The Net Gen Meets Melvil Dewey
or We’re Not in
Kansas Anymore
Questions? Comments?
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Michael RidleyChief Information Officer & Chief
LibrarianUniversity of Guelph