Category Archives: teenagers and the library

a short history of internet scare stories

2004: “Your children are being solicited in chatrooms!”
Meanwhile, adults start using IM at work and IM scare stories go away.
Then,
2006: “Your children are being solicited on MySpace!”
Meanwhile, people over 35 join Facebook en masse and social networking site scare stories go away.
Then,
2009:

The cycle continues!

information behaviour of the researcher of the future

Here’s another report to read. It was produced by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee. It is on my reading list for this afternoon but I’m recommending it now because when I scanned through I saw some interesting statements like:
CIBER’s considered view is that the real issue that the library [...]

this big library called barnes & noble

In preperation for a workshop I’m facilitating at the PNLA conference I watched a DVD titled “Idaho Digital Natives Focus Groups 2007.” It is a selection of footage from work done by the Idaho Commission for Libraries through an IMLS grant.
The full report is available here: “Perceptions of Idaho’s Digital Natives on [...]

Tapping the Tools of Teen Culture in the LMC

This article first appeared in the Sept/Oct issue of “Multimedia & Internet @ Schools.” They put it online full text (yay) but I’m going to reprint it here now in case you didin’t click through, and because I can. While it is focused on Library Media Centers in schools, it is could be [...]

privacy is not an option

When talking about social software, especially MySpace and Facebook, I get asked about privacy a lot. It often goes like this: “What are these people doing sharing this information about themselves!? Anyone can look at it! Oh.My.God!” And I often feel like saying, “Duh, that’s the point.” This is not [...]