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Book Talk: Digital Equity Ecosystems: How Community Coalitions Reduce Inequality and Strengthen Democracy

July 15, 2026 from 1:00 PM– 2:00 PM ET

Virtual (Zoom)

Join The Metropolitan New York Library Council for a lunchtime chat with Colin Rhinesmith, author of Digital Equity Ecosystems:How Community Coalitions Reduce Inequality and Strengthen Democracy. Colin, an associate professor and director of the Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will join us to talk about how community coalitions—in which libraries can play an essential role—serve as vital infrastructure to tackle digital inequality and strengthen democracy.

Find more information, including a link to register, here.