Serving ‘millennials’ is new chapter for libraries

Because the only people more important than Baby Boomers are their children, The Star Tribune reports on serving millennials. In one of the kickoff sessions of the national conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the group spent seven hours Thursday at the Minneapolis Convention Center puzzling over the habits of the so-called millennial generation. Only 7 hours? C’mon, we should really devote an entire to conference to the most glorious generation the world has ever seen. They sound so very different from us old people: “They multi-task, think parallel and think graphically, not textually,” he said. “They have good feelings about libraries, but they don’t consider it as a career and they’re not sure of the future of libraries.”
Wow! They can multi-task?! How will we ever serve their complex needs? All hail the millennials, they will show us the way.

April 9, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Julian says:
    April 10, 2005 at 6:42 am

    serving millennials…
    Remember… millennials are now becoming librarians. Why not ask millennials who are librarians?

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