Libraries Bridging the Digital Divide

LibrariesBridging theDigital Divide Library of MichiganOpening Keynote, Beginning Workshop Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net @librarianbyday bobbi@librarianbyday.net

What is the digital divide? Why does it matter? The role of Libraries

What is the digital divide?

What will close it?Access to the technology AND Skills to use it well

Technology

Who Doesn’t Have Access?one third of all Americans or 100 million Americans

Who Doesn’t Have Access• less than 33% poorest Americans have adopted home broadband (over 90% of the richest Americans have high-speed internet access at home)• less than 50% of African Americans have home broadband access• less than 50% Latinos have home broadband access• less than 50% of the elderly have home broadband access• less than 50% of rural populations have home broadband access -Genachowski, 2011

Zickuhr, 2012

Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, andcommunicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills. ALA Digital Literacy Taskforce, 2012

Why Does It Matter?

Some Stats• Over 80% of Fortune 500 companies require online job applications (including major employers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, and ExxonMobil)• students with a computer and broadband at home have 6 to 8 percentage higher GPA than similar student who don’t have home access to the Internet• Consumers with broadband at home have the potential to save more than $7,000 a year.- Genachowski, 2011

Connection Opportunity Education EmploymentCivic Engagement

Smith, 2010

Libraries provide a bridge across the digital divide

77 million Americans or approximately 34% of thepopulation used a public library to access the internet In 2009

In 64.5% of communitiesthe public library is the only free provider of public access to a computer and the internet

ALA, 2012

Resources• Digitalliteracy.gov• Connect to Compete• Digital Literacy Project - Atwater Library• Digital Literacy: Learning Resources | Idaho Commission for Libraries

References• ALA supports FCC proposal to fund digital literacy training through public libraries. (2012, April 3).District Dispatch. Retrieved from http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/04/ala-supports-fcc- proposal-to-fund-digital-literacy-training-through-public-libraries/• Becker, S., Crandall, M. D., Fisher, K. E., Kinney, B., Landry, C., & Rocha, A. (2010). Opportunity for American Library Association. (2011). The state of Americas libraries: A report from the American Library Association. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. Retrieved from http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries2011/state_of_americas_li braries_report_2011.pdf• All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries (IMLS-2010-RES-01). Washington, DC: Institute of Museum and Library Services.• DiMaggio, P., & Hargittai, E. (2001). From the ‘digital divide’ to ‘digital inequality’: Studying internet use as penetration increases. Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University: Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.• Federal Communications Commission. (2010). Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan. Washington, D.C: Federal Communications Commission.• Genachowski, J. (2011, November). FCC & “Connect to Compete” tackle barriers to broadband adoption, Face Sheet for Chairman Genachowski Remarks on Broadband Adoption, Speech presented in Washington, D.C. Retrieved from http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-310924A1.pdf• Smith, A. (2010). Home broadband 2010. Washington, D.C: Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.• Zickuhr, K. (2010). Generations 2010. Washington, D.C: Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.• Zickuhr, K., & Smith, A. (2012). Digital differences. Washington, D.C: Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.

Questions? Bobbi Newmanhttp://librarianbyday.net @librarianbydaybobbi@librarianbyday.net

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