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6340 Topics

"Digital Natives," Electronic Resources, and "The Stuff in the Middle"


by Beth Friese




"Digital Natives"
    A contested term
    Who are the "millenials?"
    How does this impact collections?
    Access is critical - stories from the field

Cybraries / Cybrarians
    Another contested term?

What kinds of resources should we be collecting?
    Ebooks - now the Kindle, iPad ...
       30 benefits of Ebooks from Epublishers Weekly blog
    Playaways
    Wikibooks
    RSS feeds
    Games
    Pathfinders
    Databases

What about services?
    Facebook?  Second Life?  Twitter?  Virtual Reference?  24/7 Librarianship?
   
2.0 Collection tools
    Social bookmarking
    LibraryThing and Shelfari
    Google Book Search
   



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