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Equal Access Libraries
Youth Trends
National Youth Trends
Teens:• Are Platform Agnostic• Live Online• Consume Micromedia• Create Content
Games are like books, they are just another format
Gaming is the medium of choice for the millennial
generation
Gaming Stats
• 81% of teens play games online• 25% of US homes own a
PlayStation• 32% of households own a
handheld gaming device
Cell Phones• 1 in 5 teens say they can't live without
their cell phones*• 38% of teens own a cell phone *• 44% of teens say text messaging is
their communication of preference*• 47% of teens use cell phones to take
photos• Multimedia/SMS**
*Disney Mobile/Harris Interactive.**M:Metrics
We Live Online
• IM: 800+ million messages a day; 62 million users
• Facebook/MySpace• Teen Second Life
XKCD. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png © 2007 Randall Munroe. Used with permission.
Map of Online Communities
Instant Messaging (IM)
• AOL – 90-95% of teen users AIM• Meebo: 80 million messages a day• IMVU• Gaim• Trillian
Social Networking Apps
• Facebook: 23 M• Flickr: 4 M• Friendster: 29 M• Gaia: 7 M• Livejournal: 12.9 M• Myspace: 176.5 M• Teen Second Life: 65, 000• There.com
Pop Quiz!
http://www.voya.com
Library Trends
• Spaces• Collections• Staff
Service Models
• Carvers Bay (SC) Branch Library (gaming)
• Imaginon, NC (TSL)• Hennepin (MN) County• LAPL Teen’Scape (gaming)• Thomas Ford Memorial Library
(IM Ref)
ImaginonCharlotte, NC
• http://www.imaginon.org/index.asp
Hennepin County LibraryHennepin County, MN
http://www.myspace.com/hennepincountylibrary
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
Western Springs, IL
http://www.fordlibrary.org/chat/
Carver's Bay Branch Georgetown County, Carver's Bay, SC
http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13796
Space Models
• Seekonk (MA) Public Library• Los Angeles (CA) Public Library
Teen’Scape• Ocean County Library System,
Tom's River NJ
Seekonk (MA) Public Library
http://www.seekonkpl.org/
Los Angeles (CA) Public Library
http://www.lapl.org/ya/
Ocean County LibraryTom's River, NJ
http://oceancounty.lib.nj.us/Teens/teens.htm