In this article, we examine the discourse that academic librarians have used to describe different generations and age groups in articles and conference presentations throughout the last 2 decades. Age and generations have surfaced in the professional literature in several contexts, whether they warn of a crisis shortage of academic librarians due to the “graying” of the profession or paint “next-gen librarians” as a technologically separate species from those that came before them. The assumption that generational differences in the workplace require attention has generally been accepted without question in library literature. We examine the narrative of generational differences as an example of neoliberalism, where complexity is reduced to a problem with a ready-made solution. Ultimately, we argue that these narratives erase generational difference and would benefit from an intersectional approach to identity.

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高校图书馆世代差异的虚假叙述：一种交叉的方法

在本文中，我们研究了过去20年中大学图书馆员在文章和会议介绍中用来描述不同年龄段和年龄段的论述。在一些情况下，年龄和世代已经在专业文献中浮出水面，无论是他们警告说由于专业的“掠夺”而导致的学术图书馆员短缺的危机，还是将“下一代图书馆员”描绘成与以前的技术分离的物种他们。在图书馆文献中，毫无疑问地接受了关于工作场所的代际差异需要引起注意的假设。我们以新自由主义为例来考察代际差异的叙述，在这种情况下，将复杂性降低为现成解决方案所带来的问题。最终，