Information Commons: Meeting Millennials’ Needs

ABSTRACT

Information Commons are popular with millennial (also called net generation) students, who often work in groups, use technology avidly, and combine their academic and social lives. Enhancing the configuration of services for the Information Commons can assist in leveraging the value of the available content, hardware, software, and physical setting to support learning and academic programs. Understanding millennial students’ lifestyle is key to developing a robust service program to engage and support them.

This article originally published in Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 50, Issue 1, pages 27–37, 2010. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01930820903422156.

KEYWORDS:

• Information Commons
• Learning Commons
• millennials
• net generation students

Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges Clifford Lynch (CNI) for comments on a draft of this article.