Connecting with the Millennials: library services then and now

Drexel University Libraries actively incorporate a variety of technologies into its instruction programs. We will describe some of these technologies such as RSS feeds, blogs, interactive tutorials, podcasts, WebCT, and others. We will discuss examples of how we have used these technologies. We have aggressively sought collaboration with faculty and our counterparts at Information Resources & Technology, Drexel’s computing services department. Active, interactive and engaged learning approaches in combination with above technologies motivate students to become independent learners and in the process they develop lifelong information seeking skills. A selection of these partnerships will be described