Libraries have the potential to be important sites for youth and families from nondominant communities to engage in the development of computational literacies needed to fully participate in our digital society. In this study, we focus on the perspectives, interests, and needs of parents and the ways they might take up technology-based opportunities within library settings. Parents can play important roles in their children’s technological development as they make decisions and broker resources from their community for their children. We conducted focus groups at 2 library sites to ask parents about their family’s relationship with
technology, their local library, and other community resources. Their perspectives highlight the ways libraries
must pay attention to how their physical interface (e.g., entrance, parking, and spaces), as well as their social and emotional interfaces, can impact families’ participation in new and emerging technology-based opportunities.
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