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Library : jail and prison initiatives PROGRAMS (by state): California Alameda County Library Foundation: Start with a story Start with a story provides books, story times, and outreach to the hundreds of children who visit their parents at two Alameda County JailsStart With A Story operates at...
Hot damn somebody actually TALKED TO THE LIBRARY first.
People eligible for the coronavirus vaccine tell us they are running up against barriers that are designed into the very systems meant to serve those most at risk of dying of the disease. We plan to continue tracking these roadblocks.
As vaccine distribution accelerates, we should pause to think through what problems are already apparent, and what changes we might make to mitigate those problems.
When schools closed last March, roughly 16 million U.S. K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. In the ...
While libraries have always worked to help breach the digital divide by providing free Internet access, public access computers and teaching media literacy, the current pandemic has made it abundantly clear that much more needs to be done. This article proposes ways that libraries might work with community, state, national and even global partners to help promote universal broadband.
Children whose parents didn’t have college degrees were more likely to have digital information transferred to third parties – including Facebook Graph – despite child privacy laws prohibiting the practice.
The path out of poverty — increasingly — is access to technology. I am a product of what that access can bring.
A government program aimed at reversing the longstanding connectivity issues on tribal lands is complicated by the pandemic.
From big cities to tiny towns, librarians are getting scrappy to meet the need
It’s a problem that many educators have been grappling with for years, but one that has been exacerbated—and made more public—by COVID-19: Many ...
As teachers pivot to distance learning, students without stable internet access have virtually disappeared.
School closings, e-learning tough for the 20% of rural students without broadband.