Net Generation, Digital Natives and Learning Commons

Abstract

In order to realize the transformation requirements of the “net generation” born after 2000 as the service objects of university libraries still better, this paper analyzes the characteristics of the net generation, and points out that the net generation has great differences from the traditional readers of libraries in terms of learning and borrowing habits, and has very great influences on the form of solid and virtual learning environments provided by university libraries. On this basis, this paper constructs the library learning commons service model facing the net generation, and discusses the principles for the reconstruction of the learning commons of university libraries from the four aspects “adaption to local conditions, demand orientation, real-virtual combination, and people foremost”, in order to achieve their sustainable development.