Without a Net
Jessamyn C. West
Without a Net
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I wrote this book in 2011, but much of it holds true today. Understanding the digital divide means understanding the people affected by it and understanding the technology that thwarts them. This book is a combination of practical and philosophical approaches to working with the digitally divided. You can read more about this book on its website: Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide

Language
English
ISBN
9781598844535
Cover
Note from the author
Contents
Preface
Why I Am Writing This Book
Where I Came From
Where I Am
What We Have
Where We’re Going
Caveats
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Our Work Is Important—Defining the Digital Divide
Computers, We Have Them
People Are Offline for a Reason
Moral Imperatives and Technological Definitions
Who Is Offline, and Why?
What Libraries Can Do
About This Book
1 People in the Library
Library Staff—You Are Here
Library Patrons—What They Need, What They Receive
2 The Bigger Picture—Who Makes the Tools We Use
What Is a Default and Who Decides?
The Media, the Decision Makers, and How They Interact
Synthesis—How It All Works Together
3 Planning—Strategies, Techniques, and Tools
Library Policies
Leading versus Following—Tech Assessments
4 Planning for Pedagogy
Our Toolbox
Setting Up the Classroom
Instruction Happens
The Technology Itself
Are You Accessible?
5 Basic Instruction and Explanations
Tech Terms and Meanings
What Is a Computer?
What Is an Operating System?
What Is the Desktop?
What Is a Window?
Basic Tasks
6 What Is the Internet?
Internet Elevator Pitch
Internet Access
What Is Our Internet?
A Few Common Myths about the Internet
The Web
Google, The
7 Email Is Everything
Break It Down—What Is Email Really?
So, You Need Email?
Email Parts
Email Attachments
Advanced Email—Tips to Improve the Experience
Non-web-based Email
Bad People and Email
8 Office Software, Databases, and Social Software
Do You Know Word?
Bibliographic Instruction—Teaching Our Tools
Social Software and Syndicated Sites
9 When Things Go Wrong, or Right
Troubleshooting and Supporting Your Systems
Feedback and Assessment
10 Things That Work—Examples from the Field
Informal Consortia in the Green Mountains and Elsewhere
MyKLOW—Consortial Blogging
Technology Petting Zoo—Up Close and Personal
23 Things
Five Weeks to a Social Library—Collaborative Learning
11 Why This Matters and What to Do
Appendix and Bibliography
Notes
Index
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