[WEB4LIB] Re: "Generation shifts" and technology

[Browne,Ginny]

I agree with that concept.  I'm 57 and so could count as an older
librarian, but I just got my degree in 2001, so I'm new to the
profession and very involved with technology. 

Ginny Browne
Knowledge Management Librarian, OCLC
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017
ph: +1-614-761-5217
fax: +1-614-718-7460 

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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: "Generation shifts" and technology

I recently saw a survey Rachel Singer Gordon had posted
(http://www.lisjobs.com/nextgensurvey.htm ) and though I thought it
would gather good information for her next book, I was surprised to see
that the "generation shift" was cut across the absolute age of the
survey-taker, with 40 as a dividing line, rather than when the
survey-taker acquired his or her library degree. I feel (perhaps I am
deluded) that my MLS graduation year has a lot more to do with my
comfort level with technology than my years on this planet. The school
itself had no small influence in that area either.
In 1992, it was very adventuresome for librarians to be dialing into a
bulletin board, playing with FTP, etc., and the school even offered a
class in Pascal Programming for Librarians. But I still feel I have more
in common with anyone who graduated after 1990 than I do with other
librarians my age.

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com