Experts to college librarians: play more video games

June 26th, 2007 by tim finin

An article in Inside Higher Ed, When ‘Digital Natives’ Go to the Library, reports on advice some have to help students connect with libraries.

“College and university librarians got some unconventional advice Saturday: Play more video games. At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library Association, in Washington, the topic was how to help students who have learned many of their information gathering and analysis skills from video games apply that knowledge in the library. Speakers said that gaming skills are in many ways representative of a broader cultural divide between today’s college students and the librarians who hope to teach them.”

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