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Across the Great Divide:

Building Bridges for Cross-Generational Management in Libraries Emily A. Hicks 2008 NC Serials Conference Chapel Hill, NC April 11, 2008. Across the Great Divide:. If you ever used one of these. If you ever thought this was cutting edge technology. If you ever solved one of these.

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  1. Building Bridges for Cross-Generational Management in Libraries Emily A. Hicks 2008 NC Serials Conference Chapel Hill, NC April 11, 2008 Across the Great Divide:

  2. If you ever used one of these

  3. If you ever thought this was cutting edge technology

  4. If you ever solved one of these

  5. Across the Great Divide: Building Bridges for Cross-Generational Management in Libraries

  6. Four Generations at Work • Traditionalists • 1900-1945 • Baby Boomers • 1946-1964 • Generation X • 1965-1980 • Millennials • 1981-2000

  7. Traditionalists • Events • Great Depression • World War I and II • Characteristics • Hardworking • Dedicated • Conservative • Respectful of authority

  8. Baby Boomers • Events • Korean War • Vietnam War • Civil Rights Movement • Characteristics • Optimistic • Competitive • Youthful self-identity

  9. Generation X • Events • Faltering economy • Milk carton kids • AIDS • Characteristics • Skeptical • Pragmatic • Self-reliant

  10. It’s no wonder Xers are angst-ridden and rudderless. They feel America’s greatness has passed. They got to the cocktail party twenty minutes too late, and all that’s left are those little wieners and a half-empty bottle of Zima. Dennis Miller

  11. Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  12. Millennials • Events • School shootings • 9/11 • Characteristics • Technology savvy • Fun-seeking • Multitasking • Service-oriented

  13. Hire him. I want to watch his enthusiasm die. Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  14. “Sex, Love, and Nursing Homes,” Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2003 Before long, the Baby Boomer generation—some of the ’60s crowd is now in its 60s—will begin packing [nursing home] facilities. When old rock and rollers show up in their walkers—trendsetters to the end—the nursing homes might well become the hottest singles scene going.

  15. Shift Happens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q

  16. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates

  17. Blind loyalty, Jones. Now that’sa trait I like to see in a young man! Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  18. Get a Life! Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  19. First Cell Phone Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  20. What’s Film? Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  21. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.Cool Hand Luke

  22. Titanium Rule Do unto others, keeping their preferences in mind.

  23. Marks the Boss

  24. Work Culture For All Generations • Flexible • Open • Responsive • Positive • Diverse • Developmental • Retention-oriented

  25. Kids! I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today…. Why can't they be like we were,Perfect in every way? Bye Bye Birdie

  26. Let me see if I’ve got this right… you want Thursdays off, dry cleaning pickup service, and your own office in six weeks Cartoon courtesy of RainmakerThinking, Inc.

  27. Contact Information Emily A. Hicks Director of Information Acquisition & Organization University of Dayton 104B Roesch Library 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-1360 Emily.Hicks@notes.udayton.edu

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