The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s $4 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) has helped about 20 percent of U.S. libraries make improvements to publicly available technology resources and digital literacy within their communities, according to a report released on Monday by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP).
ALA Highlights Benefits of Federal Broadband Funding, Argues that E-Rate Must Be Enhanced to Sustain Progress
By on May 7, 2013
FCC Report Endorses 'Central Role' of Libraries in 'Information Life' of Communities
By on June 9, 2011
The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities delivered its report today on the media landscape in a broadband age. Although the report’s section on libraries contains nothing startling or new to those in the library community, the group does provide among its recommendations a strong endorsement of the “central role” of libraries [...]
