It's 1995 and I'm a fifth grader working on a project in the library. I'm learning how to design a webpage that will showcase my research over the "Chinese New Year." I've gathered the most interesting facts I want on my page, and I'm learning from my librarian how to code text onto the site. I realized, even back then, I was creating something advanced and totally new. Jump ahead to 1999, and I'm really only ever on a computer at school if I'm typing an English paper on a word processor, and I'm a homesick High School Sophomore sitting in my basement in Ohio, dialing up AOL to see if my bff back home in El Paso is online so we can chat. I am an Older Millennial and both of these core memories are connected to technology, like so many of our students today. However, a significant difference that sets my generation a part, is we still have more memories attached to moments nondigital compared to any generation in America that has come a...
Library Blog by Elisa Scarborough for SHSU