Marshal Breeding, Vanderbilt Library
- Generations
- Silent Gen
- Baby boomers
- Gen X
- Millennials
- Millennial characteristics
- inate ability for tech
- frenetic multitasking
- comfortable w/ diverse types of digital media
- highly interactive style of working
- The Millennials are coming
- creative, organized, independent
- impatient, skeptical, sometime arrogant
- status and authority don’t impress them
- Contrast of Generations charts
- approach to study and learning
- “they do it all while studying”
- 85% also listen to music
- also…
- tv
- movie
- im
- chat
- shaping collections for millennials
- content
- digital/immediate
- discovery
- more like the web
- access
- anytime/anywhere
- consistent with existing trends
- doesn’t conflict w/ needs of library users from previous generations
- in tune w/ strategic direction most libraries have
- a matter of degree
- an urgent need
- boomers and genx are happier w/ traditional content & modes of service
- millennials will move on to non-library info if not satisfied
- a lot at stake
- content of collections
- Ms comfortable w/ content in diverse media
- multimedia
- graphics over text
- music & audio
- video
- Ms love to remix
- collection possibilities
- e-journals/e-books
- podcasts of lectures
- video libraries of stock footage
- news archives
- datasets: census/GIS
- access to collections
- best opportunity for impact
- building collections well underway but how best to provide access
- how to respond to their prefs
- immediate
- mobile
- flexible
- intuitive
- heightened user expectations
- expectations set by web
- sophisticated web skills
- low tolerance for clunky interface
- confident in their abilities
- problems with status quo
- doesn’t meet expectations of current generation
- too many interfaces
- overly complex
- not always intuitive
- different locations for different types of information
- Best library OPAC: A Card Catalog card on the screen?
- Best we can do?
- common tools for access to local collections
- library opacs
- links to aggregators/publishers
- cross linking via OpenURL
- journal finding aids
- metasearch engines
- all loosely coupled
- Metasearch
- inherently problematic
- not immediate
- relevancy ranking difficult
- lake of deep results
- interim solution
- Change Underway
- widespread dissatisfaction
- movement to break out of current mold
- decoupling of the front-end from the back-end
- working toward the next generation of interfaces
- redefinition of the library catalog
- more comprehensive information discovery environments
- better info delivery tools
- more powerful search capabilities
- more elegant presentation
- comprehensive search service
- more like OAI
- problems of scale diminished
- problems of cooperation exist
- web 2.0 a good start
- more social and collaborative
- tools and tech that foster collaboration
- blogs, wiki, tagging, social bookmarking, user rating, user reviews
- Supporting technologies
- web services
- XML APIs
- AJAX
- Microformats
- Opensearch vs SRU/SRW
- replacement OPACs
- endeca guided navigation
- aquabrowser
- common thread
- decoupled interface
- mass export of catalog data
- alternative search engine
- alternative interface
- expanded discovery and delivery tools
- ex libris primo
- encore from III
- common threads
- decoupled interface
- comprehensive indexes that span multiple resources
- alternative interface
- library developed solutions
- extensible catalog
- university of rochester
- http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/
- redefinition of library catalogs
- question traditional notions
- no longer enough to provide a catalog of just print
- digital resources can’t be an afterthought
- multiple interfaces less tenable
- work toward equal footing for digital and print
- interface expectations
- millennials are used to the Web
- used to relevancy ranking
- must be fast
- rich visual information
- facted browsing
- navigational breadcrumbs
- ratings and rankings
- appropriate organizational structures
- LCSH v FAST
- Full MARC v Dublin Core
- OCLC perceptions: Where do your users start?
- Library Discovery Model
- Library as search destination
- non-library nterfaces
- web services are an essential enabling technology
- libraries lag behind in implementation of service oriented architecture
- global arena
- google, yahoo
- google scholar
- ask worldcat
- wikipedia
- google library print
- local v global
- how to lib collections relate to global realm
- will mass digitization replace local collections
- global arena excels at discovery
- local arena focuses on delivery
- multi-layered information discovery
- google v libraries
- unfounded concern
- google based on discovery
- libraries specialize in delivery
