Article about the Google Generation

Librarians across the state report the millennials, the generation born roughly between 1980 and 2000, are not using libraries the way past generations did.

Reference materials are gathering dust on the shelves of libraries everywhere. Reference librarians are being reassigned to other tasks, and library directors are pondering the future role of the traditional lending library. The trend has sparked an angst-filled discussion for the past several weeks among librarians online.


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