From: "Clifford Lynch" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:32:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [89.206.213.37] (HELO [172.17.17.143]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.13) with ESMTPS id 18452710 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:47:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:46:38 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org Subject: Joint JISC/British Library Study on "Gen Y" Doctoral Students Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The UK Joint Information Systems Committee and the British Library have just released a major (17,00 student) study of the behaviors and beliefs of "Generation Y" (eg born 1983-1992) doctoral students involving social media, information access, and related matters. A press release including some summary of the findings, and pointers to the entire report, are at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/06/generationy.aspx You can download the report at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow.pdf Clifford Lynch Director, CNI