Aaron at Walking Paper describes his view of the YL phenomenon (as I shamelessly steal his YL abbreviation, which I love):

YLs (my new term*) are bringing a relevant and much needed perspective
into the profession. Because they've spent their life immersed in modern
information technologies (or at least, videogames), I have faith that
YLs will do a fine job implementing technologies into libraries. Many
YLs I've met were attracted to the profession for the same or similar
reasons as me: it is a helping profession, it promotes learning, I don't
have to sell anything, I get to play with computers, and so forth. This
leads me to believe that YLs might also do a great job creating usable
public spaces.

Meanwhile, Library Journal offers a case study on what happens when not-so-young librarians think everything is fab in the library, and YLs do not agree. Isn't everyone having this problem at their library? Does anyone really see a solution to this, besides calling in Human Resources to play mommy?

Posted by Hilary at June 16, 2004 05:59 PM