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OverviewHow can libraries ensure that patrons from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds have access to advanced technology training and hardware? Everyone knows libraries provide access to computers and the internet for day to day use, but many libraries have gone beyond those basic services. Makerspaces and advanced tech training are often not equitably distributed between differing communities. The digital divide is still very real, and by not providing equal access to maker spaces and other similar services libraries may be unintentionally contributing to that divide. This book examines how the unequal distribution of resources between communities can limit access to emerging technologies. Chapters from librarians across the country give real world examples of libraries going the extra mile to bring more than just email access to their communities, regardless of economic status or geographic distribution. You’ll find practical plans put forward by working professionals who have sought pragmatic solutions to issues of digital literacy. Access is a through line in this work as people look at the larger ideas of access as inclusive of training, diverse technologies, and the time and space to make genuine growth in tech literacy. Chapters include: ·working with immigrants, ·low cost laptops for library use, ·deep dives into the underpinnings of the maker movement, and ·developing community-focused technology training. After reading this book, librarians should have practical ideas to address the issue of equity in access to emerging technologies in their own communities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lauren ComitoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9781538122174ISBN 10: 1538122170 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 08 February 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Identifying the problem Introduction - Digital Equity in Libraries Lauren Comito Chapter 1: Fund All the Things: Finding Money to Do Great Work Erica Freudenberger Part 2: Physical Access Chapter 2: Technology on the Border: Bringing STEAM-Based Learning and Digital Technologies to Southern Arizona Emily Scherer Chapter 3: Linux Laptops for Libraries Alex Lent Chapter 4: Shifting Focus Toward Imminent Needs: The Importance of Flexibility in Digital Literacy Training to Teens Within the Maker Movement Ricci Yuhico Part 3: Training Chapter 5: Cracking the Code: The IMLS/Mozilla Web Literacy for Library Staff Project Davis Erin Anderson Chapter 6: You Can Do I.T.: Raising Tech Confidence and Competencies in Rural Texas Carson Block, Cindy Fisher, and Henry Stokes Chapter 7: Experiment, Learn, Respond at the Salt Lake City Public Library: The First Year of the Tech League Initiative Tommy Hamby, Shauna Edson, and Elaine Stehel Part 4: Makerspaces Chapter 8: The Best Things Made in a Makerspace, Aren’t the Physical Ones Steve Teeri Chapter 9: Library Makerspaces and Interest-Based Learning as Tools for Digital Equity Lyndsey Runyan Chapter 10: Improving Education with Library STEM Programs and Access to New Technologies Maria Mucino Part 5: Technology for Employment and Business Chapter 11: Evolution of Community Services in Saint Paul Rebecca Ryan and Pang Yang Chapter 12: Creative Opportunity for All: Makerspaces for Youth and Adult Workforce Populations in an Urban Setting Amanda Feist, Katrina Hartz Taylor, and Xenia Hernández Chapter 13: Learning from Our Community – Using an Assessment Tool to Meet Patrons at the Point of Need Amy Honisett, Gloria Jacobs, Judy Anderson, Jill Castek, Cindy Gibbon, and Matthew Timberlake About the Editor and Contributors IndexReviewsSo many good ideas here! Comito and her team have created a great go-to guide of tech-forward ways to help libraries happily greet and engage with the 21st century. This is an exceptional collection of peer-tested tools and tips for libraries big and small wanting to work on digital inclusion. -- Jessamyn West, librarian, Vermont Mutual Aid Society & Librarian.net So many good ideas here! Comito and her team have created a great go-to guide of tech-forward ways to help libraries happily greet and engage with the 21st century. This is an exceptional collection of peer-tested tools and tips for libraries big and small wanting to work on digital inclusion. -- Jessamyn West, librarian, Vermont Mutual Aid Society & Librarian.net Tech for All takes a fresh look at one of the most important issues facing both libraries and society: how do we seek equity of access and training to technology when economic equity escapes us? Both important and approachable, this book is a must-read for librarians, staff, board members, and anyone with a connection to how their local libraries could better serve those most in need. -- Jason Griffey, affiliate, MetaLab at Harvard University Tech for All is a practical, shining example of a great how-to book. It concentrates on showing the reader multiple projects from start to finish with the results of each specific project, including how each of these projects engaged library customers and staff with the target technology. This book is not a this is how you could do it it is the more effective This is how WE did it, and you can too. The success of the projects covered in the book can be the pebble that ripples in your community. Kudos to all of the project contributors and the editor. -- Maurice Coleman, host, producer, and creator, T is for Training; principal, Coleman and Associates Author InformationLauren Comito has been working to level the playing field for New York City library users for over a decade. Currently the Neighborhood Library Supervisor at the Mill Basin Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, in her previous work as the Job & Business Academy Manager at Queens Library she developed a team that has helped hundreds of people find employment opportunities. She created the Where in Queens mobile website as a development on the ideas put forth by ZenDesk and LinkSF, with whom she laid the groundwork for a partnership while she was presenting at SXSW Interactive. Lauren has logged hundreds of hours training people how to use technology to improve their lives and job opportunities. Lauren is also very invested in the Library ecosystem serving in numerous capacities in ALA (Council, Committee on Library Advocacy) and in the New York Library Association (President Leadership & Management Section, Chair of the Communication Committee). She is the Chair of the Board of Urban Librarians Unite as well as being a founding member of the org. She started ULU’s Urban Librarians Conference and has organized this highly regarded conference for four years with speakers and attendees from across the country. Lauren Comito was awarded a Library Journal Mover & Shaker award for her work with tech training and job readiness. Her workgroup received the 2015 Gale Cengage Award for Excellence in Reference & Adult Library Services for the Where in Queens project. She is regularly asked to speak at regional and national conferences on topics of tech, tech training, women in leadership, cross generational management, and library advocacy. 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