Thoughts on the Millennials
There’s been a lot talk about the so-called Millennial generation the past few years. Radical Millennialist librarians often make sound recommendations, for example that libraries should provide better...
View ArticleDigital Natives and Me
Inside Higher Education reported on a program at the ALA Annual Conference about video-gaming and how we should do more of it in libraries to learn to speak to the “digital natives,” sometimes known as...
View ArticleThe Language of the Millennials
I now declare to the world that I don’t want to hear any more librarians try to tell me that college students today are so vastly different from normal human beings that no one can communicate with...
View ArticleBefore I Get Old
Gloom, like sex, sells, though it’s odd anyone would want to buy it considering that, also like sex, there’s so much of it freely available on the Internet. There’s certainly enough to be gloomy about:...
View ArticleTo Read or Not to Read
I seem to be reading a lot lately about how people don’t read anymore, especially these young people. On my recent flights, there sure seemed to be a lot of people reading books, but maybe airline...
View ArticleThe Dumbest Generation?
“Students, even of college age, have had very little conscious experience of life or books and it is no wonder their minds are bone dry.” Jacques Barzun, Teacher in America, 1945. I’ve been meaning to...
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