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captainogbleedmore t1_j7wtl89 wrote

Those that learned it later in life? The internet as we know it has been around since the early 90s and librarians in their 40s and 50s grew up with it. I'm only in my early 40s and was on BBS's in the late 80s. Prior to' 94 databases were housed on floppy disks and CDs. The literature and testing has shown that Millennials and GenZ are actually worse at research online because they lack basic information literacy skills. I teach information literacy to grad students in their 20s that have never heard about boolean operators, truncation, etc. They have no idea how to utilize the CRAAP test or how to access databases. Google has made people intellectually lazy, meanwhile we in the information science field are the ones that write and know how to navigate the metadata. It takes a master's degree to become an academic librarian for a reason.

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random_vermonter t1_j7xbkjn wrote

Millennial here. I'm familiar with all of that. This generation-bashing has got to stop unless Gen X is prepared to have it thrown back in their faces. After all, they were the generation that were guinea pigs for kidnappings, lead poisoning and preventable deaths.

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