GEN: Teens: Internet Over Library

[carlton martz <cmartz@EEE.ORG>]

The highly respected Pew polling research organization has
a very entensive report on teens and the Internet:
Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message
Generation.  A small part of this report concerns teen use
of the Internet for school purposes.  The Pew report found
that 71% of "online teens" rely mostly on Internet sources
rather than the library for their school research projects.
(See section: Research Papers and Projects-From Dewey Decimal
to Dot-Com).  Another finding was that online teens are
becoming intuitively more sophisticated in selecting Internet
sources since students realize that anyone may post almost
anything on the Internet (See section: Learning Which Information
to Trust).
www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=36

My question to the school library community is:  How should we
respond to the now documented fact that increasing numbers of
students rely more on their own access to Internet resources
than to school library resources and library media teachers
to guide them in their research efforts?

Carl Martz
Retired, Past Pres. of Calif. School Lib. Assn.--Southern Section
cmartz@eee.org

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