1. Net Gen Students and ETDs Joan K. Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information www.cni.org

2. Overview Characteristics of Net Gen students Preparing Net Gen Authors Net Gen services Call to action

3. Net Gen Students Experiential Multi-tasking Visually oriented Fast Social Mobile

4. Students working together at Dickinson College

5. Preparing Net Gen Authors A goal of the NDLTD is “for graduate students to learn about electronic publishing and digital libraries, applying that knowledge as they engage in their research and build and submit their own ETD.”

6. Preparing Net Gen Authors “When people talk to me about the Digital Divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen.” George Lucas, EDUTOPIA, 2004

7. Preparing Net Gen Authors Develop new genres of scholarship Prepare for a career as a “knowledge worker” Balance between traditions of scholarship and new technology- enabled creativity

8. New Genres of Scholarship

9. Contribution from Vectors http://vectors.iml.annenberg.edu/

10. USC Student Project

11. Preparing Net Gen Authors Fluency in information technology Information literacy More emphasis on information policy issues –Intellectual property –Licensing –Privacy –Interoperability

12. Services for the Net Gen Promote sense of community –Group study rooms for dissertation support groups –Information Commons –Cafes –Host blogs, wikkis for ETD authors –Information professionals join discussions via CMS

13. Ohio University "There is no comparison between the Learning Commons and the old second floor," says John Pratt, a graduate student majoring in history. "I never came to the second floor to do my studying before, but the computers and technology offered along with the many tables and the spacious area make everything easy to access. Now I come just about every day to do research and work on my thesis."

14. U. Georgia Student Learning Ctr.

15. U. Minnesota Library’s Blog Service

16. Services for the Net Gen Support creation of innovative products –Multi-media studios –Data structure and storage Support use of new products

17. Dartmouth College’s Media Center

18. New Media Suites at U. Toronto

19. Data Storage

20. Scholar’s Box

21. CALL TO ACTION: Administrators Create policies that address the needs of 21st century authors –Multimedia –Data storage –Group authorship

22. CALL TO ACTION: Faculty Take responsibility for information literacy and technology issues –Work in partnership with the library, IT and other units

23. CALL TO ACTION: Information Professionals Promote awareness of issues Create services to support Net Gen –In-person –Virtual Develop facilities and services for multi-media authorship

24. CALL TO ACTION: Information Professionals Provide expertise –Technical standards –Information policy issues Encourage community –Learning spaces –Virtual communities

25. CALL TO ACTION: Information Professionals Promote awareness and recognition of innovative ETDs –Awards –Displays Support student interest in creativity by advocacy of new institutional policies