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Agosto, D.E., Magee, R. M.,
Dickard, M., & Forte, A. (2016). Teens, Technology, and Libraries: An
Uncertain Relationship. Library
Quarterly, 86(3), 248-269.
Authors interviewed 25 high school students from an urban U.S. magnet public high
school, to research the extent to which teens were integrating libraries into
their technology use patterns. After using qualitative content analysis to
evaluate their responses in the interviews, they discovered that the teens
considered libraries as obsolete, and had a limited perception of them equating
merely to books.
Their findings are not
ground-breaking. We have long known that
as teens have seemingly ubiquitous access to technology, they feel they don’t
have a need for libraries. However, noting that all of these students had used
libraries at least once in their lives, the researches emphasized “…the importance
of thinking about library use and nonuse not as binary but as a continuum of
use, as is the case with technology use” (p. 262) and reiterated the need for
librarians to shift from the role of resource provider to information educator,
instructing them how to navigate through and evaluate the relevancy of
information.
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