Myths & Facts About the Digital Divide

TNLA, Knoxville TN
March 23, 2012

Handouts & Files

• Slides and Notes: PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Links to cited sources

• Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide
• National Broadband Map
• Broadband availability in VT (pdf)
• Tennessee Broadband maps & residential survey
• Pew Research Center's reports on Internet & Technology
• Competing media messages report
• ALA: State of America's Libraries 2011
• IRS Advancing E-file Study
• Broadband adoption in low income communities report
• Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
• Manhattan phone directory "How to dial" instructions
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• NYC Broadband landscape report
• Flowtown Teens & Cell Phones infographic (related Pew report Teens and Mobile phones)
• Pew Internet & American Life Project August 2010 report about adoption slowdown
• Arbitron smartphone slide
• Non users would need help getting online graphic from Pew Home Broadband report
• VLA blog post about disaster assistance
• Libraries improving things: Sarah Houghton's ebooks post, Change.org Harper Collins petition, Cornell's public domain decision, UMich Orphan Works project, Open Library
• Kimball Library strategic plan

Images

• Occupy Wall Street photo
• Slide image "Old State Library inside the State Capitol. Now used as legislative lounge" from TN State Library and Archives.
• Background image "Nashville Library Association Building" from TN State Library and Archives.