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Decentralized Social Media

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In today's social media world, we’ve seen platforms go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked. And yes, a billionaire can buy a platform and change the rules. Would decentralized (or P-2-P) social media, where there is no central controlling entity, be better? How do you take down damaging posts when there is no central command center? The founders of some of the top decentralized social media networks, from Matrix to Manyverse to the new Bluesky initiative, walk you through the possibilities. With demonstrations of how to use these peer-to-peer alternatives to Facebook, Slack and Twitter.

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How Decentralized Identity Drives Data Privacy

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Resource guide for session 3 of a series of event presented in partnership with Internet Archive, DWeb, Library Futures, and METRO Library Council

November 12, 2021 - Minutes for the Board of Trustees Meeting

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Meeting minutes for the Metropolitan New York Library Council Board of Trustees Meeting, November 12, 2021

The Decentralized Web: An Introduction

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What is the decentralized web, why is it important, and where is it along the path of development? What are the problems the decentralized web seeks to solve? Who are the players working to realize this vision? Why is the Internet Archive, a library, a leader in the decentralized web movement? This resource guide, the first in a six-part series, explores those questions and more.

In an Ever-Expanding Library, Using Decentralized Storage to Keep Your Materials Safe

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Libraries understand the headache of storing materials. How do you create room for an ever-expanding collection? What if you don’t want to weed materials to make room? Enter decentralized storage—a network of P-2-P servers that store materials across a global network in exchange for cryptocurrency. What problems does this solve? What problems does this create? Where is the state of decentralized storage today?

Digital Navigators Toolkit

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This report came from an IMLS funded project including the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Urban Library Council, and the Salt Lake City Public Library. It is a toolkit for the Digital Navigators program at this library, but is useful in other libraries and other contexts

Achieving Digital Equity in New York: An Outline for Collaborative Change

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Presentation from State Librarian Lauren Moore to New York Alliance of Library Systems

Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information: A Program for Action in the New York Metropolitan Area.

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METRO Miscellaneous Publications Series, Number 1.

Report of the Commissioner's Committee on Reference and Research Library Resources

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A study from 1960 that was meant to assess "potential demands for library information services of a more advanced Nature"

Chapter 933 session law establishing state aid for libraries and library systems

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An act to amend the education law, in relation to the establishment of libraries and library systems, making an appropriation for state aid for library service and repealing certain sections of such law

A collection of memoranda from the bill establishing library systems in New York State

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An Act to amend the education law, in relation to the establishment of libraries and library systems, making an appropriation for state aid for library service and repealing certain sections of such law. Note from the NY State library - "When a bill passes both houses of the New York State Legislature, the Governor's Counsel's Office collects memoranda and letters discussing the pros and cons of the bill. Materials collected may include a sponsor's memo justifying the lawmaker's introduction of the bill, counsels' statements, State agencies' official positions, study groups' comments, as well as the opinions of bar associations, lobbyists, corporations and private individuals. These items are put together in a file called the bill jacket and are are an important part of the legislative history."

Preliminary study for an improved information transfer system for METRO libraries

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This preliminary study of a communications system among approximately fifty affiliates of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency, Inc (METRO) provides an outline for an initial information transfer network within a fifty mile radius of Times Square. The technique offered is the Morchand Information-Reception System (video).

System Leaders: NYS IMLS/ARPA Plan Overview

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Powerpoint from the NY State Library

Achieving Digital Equity in New York An Outline For Collaborative Change

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NYS Library paper on achieving digital equity

New York’s Digital Divide: Examining adoption of internet and computers for the state and its library districts

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Horrigan paper for NYS

New York City Internet Master Plan

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New York City Internet Master Plan

Colin Rhinesmith Digital Equity Ecosystems Presentation

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Colin's presentation for the kickoff meeting with the public library systems

Availability, Access and Affordability: Understanding Broadband Challenges in New York State

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New York State Summary of Broadband Challenges from the Comptroller's office

COMMENTS OF THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY ASSOCIATION ON THE USE OF STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN…

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Many recommendations, but see section IV - SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY AND BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

METRO bylaws

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Bylaws of New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency

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