Mary Alice Ball, Report on the Libraries Summit at the 2015 Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Conference

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In this video, Mary Alice Ball, Senior Program Officer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) gives her report on the Libraries Summit that took place on September 9, 2015 as part of the pre-conference activities at the 2015 Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums conference. In her introduction, Ball discusses two of IMLS' priorities: creating free and open access on educational resources and the expansion of access to broadband. She also discusses the Digital Inclusion Report and how to convene stakeholders to promote digital inclusion among Native American communities. The report was given on September 11, 2015 at the ATALM conference in Washington, DC.