The Google Generation Report

The Google Generation Report... The British Library and JISC commissioned a report that looks at what is colloquially being called the "Google generation": Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (2008) by the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER). It asks questions like - what do we know about young people’s information behaviour? How do young people currently behave in virtual libraries? The social networking phenomenon: is it important?

Should be compulsory reading for all of us I suspect!

Weird... but clever

I don't know if this is really an example of a mashup ... it's from a competition where people re-edited movie trailers. The Shining [not quite the way I remember it!]

LibGuides - could this be the new Navigators?

Central Queensland Uni are using LibGuides to build their online subject guides etc. for students ... could this be a platform that would work really well for our Navigators? Princeton University library is also using it and here are some examples of their guides.

InfoTubey Awards!

The InfoTubey awards are given to libraries which used YouTube to market their library or its services or enhance the standing of the library in the community. There are some great examples amongst the winners.

QUT Library is also using YouTube - they created a video to promote the library to the students in their Creative Industries Faculty.