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Lifelong Learning in Libraries Ignite Talk
April 21, 2012
I jumped off a cliff last month and did something way outside my comfort zone: I gave an ignite talk (5 mins, 20 slides designed ahead of time, and auto-advanced every 15 seconds) at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco. The talk was titled, “Learning from Birth to the Grave @ Your Library”, and I spoke of all the wonderful ways lifelong learning is on full display in Kansas libraries and in a couple of other locations. I hope you enjoy the talks. All the other ignite talks can be seen at DML’s More >
Keynote: How libraries add value to communities
March 23, 2011
Note: Next year’s conference is March 21-23 at the Hilton again.
Lee Rainie, Director Pew Internet Project
email: lrainie@pewinternet.org
Twitter: Lrainie
pew pew pew slide (token cat picture)
No agenda or position or anything. PEW generates primary useful information for their stakeholders, like librarians.
emperor of keynotes? &”monarch of twitter feedback” @itsjustkate tweet
Internet and Broadband Revolution (Revolutionary war picture)
- 24% of Americans only have cell phones (no landline): 50% are under 30.
- Change in internet use by age, 2000-2010 graph: in about 2007, flattening of Internet growth begins. Librarians have been helpful in teaching the resistant
