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Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy
By Donna DiMichele | September 24, 2012
The Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) in the American Library Association seeks comments on its digital literacy draft report.
The Digital Literacy Task Force is asking library professionals to help them answer the question: what does “digital literacy” look like in a library context? The Task Force, spearheaded by the OITP, is seeking comments on the preliminary report “Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy.” The document seeks to provide a broad overview of libraries and digital literacy and discusses the current policy context, including digital inclusion, education and lifelong learning, and workforce development.
The Task Force is made up of literacy experts from school, public, and higher-education libraries and represents a wide range of ALA units. The Task Force addresses issues and questions related to digital literacy and national policy conversations. The report will serve as a launching point for the development of a set of recommendations to the Association and the broader library community to continue and expand libraries’ engagement and leadership to effect meaningful and sustainable change in our communities. The Task Force will develop these recommendations as a companion piece to this report.
Overview of the comment period goals
The public comment period is open from September 18, 2012 – October 19, 2012. Commentators are asked to focus their feedback on substantive issues and the task force specifically asks representatives of each library type to consider how their library is portrayed.
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