- The emergence of the internet & the world wide web as vehicles for delivering scholarly information has altered the way people use the library
- In order for academic libraries to thrive in the 21st Century they must reshape their spaces, services and resources in support of technology
- Libraries now are becoming defined by their services and programs, instead of simply by their collections
- While traditional libraries have collections at the core of their existence & are used for knowledge seeking by individual researchers….LCs have student services at the core of their existence & are used for knowledge creation by students collaborating with each other
- Today’s Millennial students take courses that often are team-based and oriented to problem solving. Their coursework often involves the creation of knowledge objects such as multimedia presentations, design projects, lab data interpretations, and power-point presentations.
- LC staff help students complete a series of tasks…..from identifying, locating and evaluating information resources to creating multimedia end products
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