Ebooks & Libraries
Jessamyn Westlibrarian.net/talks/maine11
Slides in various formats
- Myths about the Digital Divide - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format
- Ebooks/Books - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format
Where we are
- Rural Electrification program history
- National Broadband Map
- Broadband availability in VT (pdf)
- Broadband availability in Maine
- Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
- Pew Research Center's reports on Internet & Technology
- Competing media messages image
Why Libraries?
- ALA: State of America's Libraries 2010
- NYC Broadband landscape report
- FEMA adds libraries to "essential services" in Section 403 of Stafford Act (Cedar Rapids story)
- VLA blog post about disaster assistance
Common misconceptions
- 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
- William James and the Will to Believe
Working Examples
- Treasures of CT Libraries program announcement and website
- Other funding: Smart Investing, NLM
- Presque Isle Read Posters
- Kimball Library strategic plan
- Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
