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What Students Want: Generation Y and the Changing Function of the Academic Library

Author(s) -

Susan Gardner,

Susanna Eng

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

portal libraries and the academy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.015

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 1531-2542

pISSN - 1530-7131

DOI - 10.1353/pla.2005.0034

Subject(s) - academic library , generation y , context (archaeology) , function (biology) , generation x , library instruction , library function , computer science , library science , psychology , information literacy , geography , business , marketing , biology , archaeology , demographic economics , evolutionary biology , baby boomers , economics , programming language

This article presents the results of a 2003 undergraduate library user survey as a case study of Generation Y. Survey data support four main traits attributed to Generation Y, which are discussed within the context of library use satisfaction. Implications for future directions in academic library services based on the new ways Generation Y learn and use the library are explored

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