In reading the perspective, Away from Icebergs, I am taken back to a time 10 years ago when my son was finishing middle school and transitioning into high school he made, or I should say WE made, many, many, many trips to the Library in hopes that they would have the information he needed for this report or that project. Sometimes it was in panic mode as he had waited too long and maybe the library would be closed by the time we got there! We did not have a computer at home and if we had I don't even know what would have been available to us electronically.
Fast forward to today as my daughter is in her last two years of high school and she seldom needs to make a trip to the library! How is that possible you say! Well, she has a computer at home, they have computers at school, and guess what? She knows how to use them! Her generation has a full command of all of the new, and to some older folks "scary" technology, out there. So why would she want to come to the library? She comes to find DVD's to check out, better than paying for them at Blockbuster, or to hang out with her friends in a comfortable environment, however she complains about the lack of all of those speciality coffee drinks that they can get at Starbucks so maybe they should hang out there instead. Programs are another thing that she will come to the library for or the occassional book that the school doesn't have available. Yes, I think we need to look hard and figure out just how we can entice those teens back into the library.
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