Comments on: Aren’t we already the “digital literacy corps”?

By: The Digital Divide, Part 3 of 3: The Digital Literacy Corps | MLISsing in Action

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:18:08 +0000

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By: Don’t Write Off ALA’s Work on Digital Literacy and the FCC Before Reading This | Librarian by Day

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:40:46 +0000

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By: Alison Francis

Alison Francis — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:25:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I just sent an email to Mr. G!

By: Dear FCC and ALA: Do You Really Not Get It? | The Unquiet Librarian

Dear FCC and ALA: Do You Really Not Get It? | The Unquiet Librarian — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:34:41 +0000

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By: Proposed ‘Digital Literacy Corps’ will not Usurp School Librarians’ Role, Explains FCC — The Digital Shift

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:39:15 +0000

[...] librarians reacted so strongly to the story that representatives of the American Library Association (ALA) reached out to some [...]

By: Update: Librarians ARE the Digital Literacy Corps « Informania

Update: Librarians ARE the Digital Literacy Corps « Informania — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:27:19 +0000

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By: Rebecca Oxley

Rebecca Oxley — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:55:03 +0000

Thanks so very much for sharing this with us, Joyce. I think this has been on every school librarian’s mind since this article hit yesterday. In fact the article itself is a completely skewed point of view regarding links between low socioeconomic status and race to so-called digital “time-wasting.” $200m probably won’t save all the SLM programs that have been slashed or imploded, but it’s ironic that it’s not too far from the amount promised to fund public and school libraries during the Bush administration under the Library Science and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) Act: funds that were promised but never fully allotted and dispersed. It also points to a major problem, an old problem: why don’t people know that teacher-librarians already fulfill this role in the school environment? Likewise, why don’t people know what’s already happening in the public library setting? There’s a veritable history of proposed solutions and movers & shakers who are exercising them- so why does this problem persist to the extent that it threatens the entire profession? And how can we solve this particular problem regarding the proposed FCC Digital Literacy Corp right here and now?

By: BeretBrenckman

BeretBrenckman — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:12:07 +0000

Thanks for the link to the article and the email address of the FCC official. I wrote him immediately!