Future-proofing the library
...through the empowerment divide
by Jessamyn Westlibrarian.net/talks/las18
November 30, 2018
Slides and Notes
Links Mentioned
- Digital Divide: The 3 Stages
- Twitter A11y hashtag and A11yTalks hashtag
- National Center for Education - Children's Access to and Use of the Internet
- Nearly one-in-five teens can't always finish their homework because of the digital divide
- My privacy talks given at Vermont Libraries
- Tractor engine video!
- A successful library scanathon! (and how they did it), a genealogist scan-a-thon
- Library of Congress personal archiving brochure
- Digitzation in the Real World - "34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America."
- The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation by Trevor Owens
- The Finding Phineas story and original photo on Flickr.
- Crowdsourcing: Library of Congress, Ornithology - Take Notes from Nature, Battling Birds
Further Reading
- How to Help Someone Use a Computer by Phil Agre
http://http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html (archived) - Who's Not Online and Why
http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/09/25/whos-not-online-and-why/ - Digital Readiness Gaps
http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/20/digital-readiness-gaps/ - Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2011-2012
http://www.ala.org/research/plftas/2011_2012 - NYPL Tech Guide Handouts
https://sites.google.com/a/nypl.org/techconnect/all - Four Essentials for Digital Inclusion Efforts
https://www.benton.org/blog/four-essentials-digital-inclusion
Links to images
- Ocean path photo by me
- Scanner image from Wikipedia
- Backwards Archive image by Roland Tanglao on Flickr
- Amusement ride by popo.uw23 on Flickr
