This morning I taught my “Librarians’ Internet Toolkit for Kids” workshop in which we discuss the Internet as it related to Millennials and libraries. Interesting enough, NPR’s Morning Edition had a report this morning on a new computer literacy test for college students from the makers of the SAT. You should listen. It starts with an interview of a third-year biology major at SUNY Albany (my alma matter) who is for the first time in his college career visiting the campus library. Maybe what we assume about what the next generation knows isn’t exactly right. Additionally, is this kind of test something that actually needs to be done?
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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