Myths & Facts About the Digital Divide
Metrolina Library Association ConferenceJune 14, 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)
- North Carolina Broadband maps
- 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
- Background image: "Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Bringing the books to the customers " in NC Digital Collections.
- Main slide "Charlotte Literary and Library Association" in NC Digital Collections.