http://www.knightcomm.org/favorite-recommendation/ A project of the Aspen Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:10:46 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.knightcomm.org/favorite-recommendation/#comment-35 Guest Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:16:49 +0000 http://www.knightcomm.org/?p=2370#comment-35 My favorite recommendation is #7: Recommendation 7: Fund and support public libraries and other community institutions as centers of digital and media training, especially for adults. I think libraries have an important role to play, not only in providing instruction in completing basic computer tasks but in learning to evaluate digital information and linking that information with other resources and librarians' expertise in things like understanding the different departments of the Federal government and their functions so patrons can identify likely sources of needed information. In our community, our local government has made a significant investment in providing computers for our community in our local community resource centers but haven't seen the need to link these computers to librarians or library resources. I think linking librarians to computers provides more "bang for the buck" when feasible. After all, we libraries have online databases which could be of use to the community if community members had access to them and knew about them. My favorite recommendation is #7: Recommendation 7: Fund and support public libraries and other community institutions as centers of digital and media training, especially for adults.
I think libraries have an important role to play, not only in providing instruction in completing basic computer tasks but in learning to evaluate digital information and linking that information with other resources and librarians' expertise in things like understanding the different departments of the Federal government and their functions so patrons can identify likely sources of needed information.
In our community, our local government has made a significant investment in providing computers for our community in our local community resource centers but haven't seen the need to link these computers to librarians or library resources.
I think linking librarians to computers provides more "bang for the buck" when feasible. After all, we libraries have online databases which could be of use to the community if community members had access to them and knew about them.

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