[Libs-Or] ALA Wastes No Time – Our Work on Digital Literacy

[Diedre Conkling]

In connection with this piece from ALA you might want to look at
"Calling School Librarians to Action! Another Attempt to Undermine
Our Jobs"
http://informania.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/calling-school-librarians-to-action-another-attempt-to-undermine-our-jobs/
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Diedre Conkling <diedre08 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/05/ala-wastes-no-time-our-work-on-digital-literacy/
>
> ALA Wastes No Time - Our Work on Digital Literacy
> Posted on May 31, 2012<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/05/ala-wastes-no-time-our-work-on-digital-literacy/>
> by Jacob Roberts <http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/jroberts/> |<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/05/ala-wastes-no-time-our-work-on-digital-literacy/#respond>
>
> Since the *New York Times* article "Wasting Time is New Digital Divide<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen-in-wasting-time-online.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1>"
> posted on May 29, 2012, we've been getting a number of questions along the
> lines of, "Hey, so is ALA working with the FCC on the digital literacy
> corps?" We thought it a good idea to give a little primer on exactly what
> ALA has been doing on digital literacy.
>
> Our involvement actually started way back when the FCC was collecting
> information to create the National Broadband Plan (NBP), the FCC plan which
> deals with improving broadband Internet access throughout the United
> States. We submitted comments<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2009/12/ala-submits-comments-to-fcc-on-national-broadband-plan-barriers-to-adoption/>to several public notices, including one asking questions about broadband
> adoption. We also worked with the Social Science Research Council, which
> was commissioned to research broadband adoption<http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/1EB76F62-C720-DF11-9D32-001CC477EC70/>in low-income communities, to put them in touch with libraries in their
> target areas. The NBP<http://www.broadband.gov/plan/9-adoption-and-utilization/#s9-3>made a number of recommendations related to improving broadband adoption,
> taking into consideration identified barriers of cost, availability,
> relevancy, and digital literacy. One of the recommendations was to create a
> digital literacy corps after the AmeriCorps model. To date, this has not
> been pursued.
>
> Since the release of the NBP, the ALA Office for Information Technology
> Policy has stayed involved with both the National Telecommunications and
> Information Administration (NITA) and the FCC as both agencies have begun
> implementing recommendations made in the NBP. Among these were the creation
> of the digitalliteracy.gov <http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/> portal last
> spring and the launching of the Connect 2 Compete<http://www.connect2compete.org/>initiative last fall.
>
> To the issue brought out in the *Times *article, ALA submitted comments<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/04/ala-supports-fcc-proposal-to-fund-digital-literacy-training-through-public-libraries/>to the FCC's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) on a proposal to
> fund digital literacy training through libraries and schools using savings
> realized from Lifeline program reforms. The FCC proposes to fund formal
> digital literacy training at $50 million per year over four years. This
> proceeding is ongoing, though the comment period is closed.
>
> ALA continues to advocate for libraries in this proceeding, knowing that
> libraries offer a formidable "triple play<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2012/03/oitp-outlines-library-triple-play-for-digital-literacy/>"
> of assets to support learners in gaining the digital skills necessary to
> thrive online.
>
> Larra Clark and Marijke Visser
> OITP
>
>
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> *Diedre Conkling**
> Lincoln County Library District
> P.O. Box 2027
> Newport, OR 97365
> Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
> Work email**: **diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org*<diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org>
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> Home email: **diedre08 at gmail.com* <diedre08 at gmail.com>
>
>  "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
> your attitude."--Maya Angelou
>
>


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*Diedre Conkling**
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR 97365
Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
Work email**: **diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org*<diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org>
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Home email: **diedre08 at gmail.com* <diedre08 at gmail.com>

 "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change
your attitude."--Maya Angelou
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