November 10, 2006

Community Colleges Consider Libraries of the Future, Courting the 'Millennials'

By ANDREA L. FOSTER and BROCK READ

It's a familiar lament among community-college librarians: When students have access to Google and Wikipedia (and, at this point, most do), they tend to start acting as if their campus libraries don't even exist.

But a library designed with an eye on the future and a foot in the past can still be a campus focal point, say officials from Sinclair Community College, in Dayton, Ohio.

In a presentation at the League for Innovation in the Community College's Conference on Information