http://www.clayfox.com/2005/11/14/what-an-undergrad-wants/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.clayfox.com/2005/11/14/what-an-undergrad-wants/#comment-1114 Clayfox » Teen creators Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:28:59 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2005/11/14/what-an-undergrad-wants/#comment-1114 [...] Case in point: suppose you’re a library and you ‘get it’ and you set up a blog. Not enough. Though a good third of teens read blogs regularly (and remember that a fifth of them are actually writing them), don’t think that just publishing a library blog is enough: “for teens,” Pew finds, “blogs are much more about the maintenance and extension of personal relationships.” If it’s too hard to think about a library coming into “personal relationship” with its users, perhaps an academic library might consider hosting and featuring personal blogs, integrating with the college’s file-sharing networks, encouraging personal collections of assets, becoming the space identified with creative and personally-motivated digital work. [...] [...] Case in point: suppose you’re a library and you ‘get it’ and you set up a blog. Not enough. Though a good third of teens read blogs regularly (and remember that a fifth of them are actually writing them), don’t think that just publishing a library blog is enough: “for teens,” Pew finds, “blogs are much more about the maintenance and extension of personal relationships.” If it’s too hard to think about a library coming into “personal relationship” with its users, perhaps an academic library might consider hosting and featuring personal blogs, integrating with the college’s file-sharing networks, encouraging personal collections of assets, becoming the space identified with creative and personally-motivated digital work. [...]

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