Health Information Equity Program

Shrewsbury MA
March 29, 2012

Handouts & Files

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

Links to cited sources

• Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide

Where we are.

• Kimball Library website
• National Broadband Map
• Broadband availability in VT (pdf)
• State maps/data for broadband programs
• Pew Research Center's reports on Internet & Technology

What is stopping us?

• Competing media messages image

Why libraries?

• ALA: State of America's Libraries 2011
• Broadband adoption in low income communities
• Broadband Adoption and Use in America & NY Times summary [pdf]
• IRS Advancing E-file Study

The mess.

• Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
• Manhattan phone directory "How to dial" instructions

The myths.

• 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

Some good news.

• VLA blog post about disaster assistance
• Libraries improving things: Sarah Houghton's ebooks post, Cornell's public domain decision, Open Library
• Kimball Library strategic plan

Images

• Lego Magician from Kennymatic
• Occupy Wall Street photo
• ALA service librarian distributing books in typical ward. Camp Travis, Texas. Image, from the unofficial Flickr home for photographs from the National Museum of Health & Medicine