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January 24, 2006
NextGen Librarians book
If you're a NextGen Librarian (I am) you may want to read Rachel Singer Gordon's new book: The NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide. It's being released in March (still time to pre-order it for your professional collections). More info can be found on the InfoToday site. The book is suggested not just for we NextGen-ers, but for those in management who supervise us (and pretty much any supervisor out there is going to have at least one NextGen-er working for him/her).
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Apparently Strauss & Howe's reasoning behind 13th generation is that Gen X is the thirteenth American generation chronologically in this timeline (beginning with the Liberty generation). If I remember correctly from reading the book, they considered it difficult to assign a name and they felt that the use of the number 13 would demonstrate the difficulty of generalizing our generation.
I've also read The Fourth Turning. I had bought a copy of it, but donated it to the library I formerly worked when I got the library job I now have.
Posted by: Library Guy | January29, 2006
I haven't read 13th Gen (though any assignation of numbers or letters to a generation makes me upset...there were many generations before that--don't they count?). At any rate, I'll still check it out as a Gen Xer myself (though many people mistake me for a Gen Y--it's that excellent skin I inherited from my mother).
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (LiB) | January28, 2006
Hmm... Looks interesting. I'll try to remember to order it when I get a chance. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm a fan of books that cover this and related topics. Incidentally, have you read any of William Strauss & Neil Howe's works? I think their 13th Gen was, when published, one of the best books I had read about the 13th Generation (a.k.a. Generation X). I've not read at it lately though. I wonder how reading it is like now that it's been a few years since it was first published.
Posted by: Library Guy | January25, 2006
