Using blackboard in library instruction: Addressing the learning styles of generations X and Y

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 452-460

  Costello, Barbara ^a   Lenholt, Robert ^a   Stryker, Judson ^a  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 10344224608     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Generation X is the term commonly used for those born between 1961 and 1981; Generation Y refers to those born since 1982
2. Catherine Lee "Teaching Generation X" Research Strategies 14 Winter 1996 57
3. Susan C. Curtis, "Listening to Generation X" Journal of Educational Media & Library Science 38 (2000): Paragraphs 21-22, 24. WilsonWeb OmniFile: Full-Text Mega. Available at http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/ (accessed March 19, 2003)
4. Sonia Bodi "How Do We Bridge the Gap Between What We Teach and What They Do?" Journal of Academic Librarianship 28 2002 110
5. Ibid., p. 111.
6. David Cannon "Generation X: The Way They Do the Things They Do" Journal of Career Planning & Employment 51 1991 36
7. Bruce Harley Megan Dreger Patricia Knobloch "The Postmodern Condition: Students, the Web, and Academic Library Services" Reference Services Review 29 2001 24
8. Jason L. Frand "The Information-Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education" EDUCAUSE Review 35 September/October 2000 17
9. Deborah Sheesley "The 'Net Generation: Characteristics of Traditional-Aged College Students and Implications for Academic Information Services" College & Undergraduate Libraries 9 2002 33
10. Kate Manuel "Teaching Information Literacy to Generation Y" Journal of Library Administration 36 2002 196
11. Ibid., p. 198.
12. Ibid., p. 207
13. David Cohen "Course-Management Software: Where's the Library?" EDUCAUSE Review 37 2002 12
14. John D. Shank and Nancy H. Dewald, "Establishing Our Presence in Courseware: Adding Library Services to Virtual Classrooms" Information Technology & Libraries 22 (2003): 38. WilsonWeb OmniFile: Full-Text Mega Availasble at http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/ (accessed January 23, 2004)
15. Cohen "Course-Management Software" p. 12
16. Shank and Dewald, "Establishing Our Presence" p. 38
17. Rob Lenholt Barbara Costello Judson Stryker "Utilizing Blackboard to Provide Library Instruction: Uploading MS Word handouts with Links to Course Specific Resources" Reference Services Review 31 2003 213
18. For a complete discussion of the technical aspects of the Blackboard project, see Lenholt, Costello, and Stryker, "Utilizing Blackboard" pp. 212-214
19. Lenholt, Costello, and Stryker, "Utilizing Blackboard" p. 214
20. In the fall 2002 Semester, the mean age of full-time undergraduate students enrolled at Stetson University was 20.21; for part-time undergraduates, the mean age was 31.94. The mean age of full-time graduate students was 30.73, and of part-time graduate students the mean age was 32.73. During the time covered by the project, the Stetson student body was a mix of Generations X and Y, along with older non-traditional students. Stetson University Institutional Research Office. Stetson University Fact Book 2002-2003, http://www.stetson.edu/offices/iro/2002-03FactBookforpdffile%20.pdf (accessed February 27, 2004)
21. "How Academic Librarians Can Influence Students' Web-Based Information Choices" OCLC White Paper on the Information Habits of College Students. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: 2002, under "How Do They Rate Themselves as Web Users?" http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/pdf/printondemand/informationhabits.pdf (accessed May 3, 2003)
22. Frand, "Information-Age Mindset" p. 16
23. Cannon, "Generation X" p. 36