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