Are Our Academic Libraries Ready for the Internet Generation?

Abstract

A trend is emerging in Internet access by K-12 teachers, students, and college freshmen that forecasts coming challenges for college and university librarians, computer administrators, and faculty. Because these students increasingly utilize the Internet to do research on their own initiative, as they enter higher education their library use is changing in ways that require new strategies to integrate traditional resources with Internet research. Many solutions to present and future challenges will be implemented by computer administrators in consultation with professions traditionally associated with the academic library.