Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information
Jinfo Article
3rd June 2008
By Derek Law
Abstract
With ‘digital natives' beginning to enter the workforce, it's incumbent on information professionals to understand and adapt to their work methodologies in order to maintain relevance. Derek Law posits that this generation's ‘aliteracy' creates an opportunity for information professionals to position themselves as experienced teachers of information literacy.
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