Tech for All -

. .

Résumé :
Foreword 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 Hern?ndez 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 Index...

Biographie:

Lauren 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.