Libraries and the digital divide
What does it mean digital divide? It means that people do not have equal access to digital resources.
Well as described in this convocation for a "Panel leaders will detail effective tactics to sustain and improve Internet accessibility in libraries and discuss future directions for public access to information. The event coincides with the release of data showing that the digital divide is expanding, affecting far more than the disconnected–according to the report, one-fifth of people with advanced online access have insufficient levels of digital skills." "How Libraries Are Responding to the Second Digital Divide." District Dispatch. ALA Dispatch, 28 Apr. 2014. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.
The convocation explains how alarmingly increasing is the rate of disparity in levels of access to electronic resources within the american population and how libraries and community should work together to breach that gap.
Whenever I go to the public library I see many people using the computers, but I also see that they do have computer classes. I would have thought that at this point everyone would know how to use digital resources but that is not the case, there is always a crowd on those classes. Again libraries are always at the vanguard when it comes to serving the public in any way to reach information. What to access and how to access it, always serving the public.
Whenever I go to the public library I see many people using the computers, but I also see that they do have computer classes. I would have thought that at this point everyone would know how to use digital resources but that is not the case, there is always a crowd on those classes. Again libraries are always at the vanguard when it comes to serving the public in any way to reach information. What to access and how to access it, always serving the public.
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