[OPLINLIST] FYI: A news item about libraries & the internet

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:18:01 -0400

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LIBRARIES WIRED, AND REBORN

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What has the Internet done for libraries? Transformed them and help them =
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what they have always aimed to do: providing information free to the=20

public. In 1996, 28% of all libraries had PC's for public access to the=20

Internet. Now, 95% of libraries offer Internet access. The Bill and =
Melinda=20

Gates Foundation has helped by installing or paying for more than 47,000 =

PCs as well as providing leadership, training and a simplified recipe =
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using and maintaining PC's in public libraries. And Internet-connected=20

computers are clearly bringing more people into libraries. A year after=20

computers are put in libraries that do not have them, visits rise 30=20

percent on the average and attendance typically remains higher, =
according=20

to a study led by Andrew C. Gordon, a professor of public policy at the=20

University of Washington.

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There's much more at the URL below. Also see "Toward Equality of Access" =
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http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/Downloads/libraries/uslibraries/reports=
/To
wardEqualityofAccess.pdf=20

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http://tinyurl.com/yqzj2

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to see how libraries are helping to bridge the Digital Divide.

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Steve Lohr]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/technology/circuits/22gate.html

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Frank Atkinson
franka@ohcapcon.com

Rotunda Inc / Ohio Capitol Connection
http://www.rotundacollection.com

21 W. Broad St #1000

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face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>LIBRARIES WIRED, =
AND REBORN</span></font></p>

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face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier =
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What has the =
Internet done
for libraries? Transformed them and help them do

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>what they have =
always aimed
to do: providing information free to the </span></font></p>

public. In 1996, =
28% of all
libraries had PC's for public access to the

Internet. Now, 95% =
of
libraries offer Internet access. The Bill and Melinda

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Gates Foundation =
has helped
by installing or paying for more than 47,000 </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>PCs as well as =
providing
leadership, training and a simplified recipe for </span></font></p>

using and =
maintaining PC's
in public libraries. And Internet-connected

computers are =
clearly
bringing more people into libraries. A year after

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>computers are put =
in
libraries that do not have them, visits rise 30 </span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>percent on the =
average and
attendance typically remains higher, according </span></font></p>

to a study led by =
Andrew C.
Gordon, a professor of public policy at the

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
  style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier =
New"'>University</span></font><font
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 of </span></font><font size=3D2 face=3D"Courier New"><span =
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>.</span></font></p>

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face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier =
New"'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

There's much more =
at the URL
below. Also see &quot;Toward Equality of Access&quot; at =

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><a
href=3D"http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/Downloads/libraries/uslibraries=
/reports/TowardEqualityofAccess.pdf">http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/Do=
wnloads/libraries/uslibraries/reports/TowardEqualityofAccess.pdf</a>
</span></font></p>

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face=3DVerdana><span
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color=3Dblack
face=3DVerdana><span =
style=3D'font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><a
href=3D"http://tinyurl.com/yqzj2">http://tinyurl.com/yqzj2</a></span></fo=
nt></p>

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face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>to see how =
libraries are
helping to bridge the Digital Divide.</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>[SOURCE: New York =
Times,
AUTHOR: Steve Lohr] <a
href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/technology/circuits/22gate.html=
">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/technology/circuits/22gate.html</a></=
span></font></p>

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Foundation (<a
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benefits </span></font></p>

made possible by =
the public
interest use of communications. Bridging the

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'text-autospace:none'><font size=3D2 =
face=3D"Courier New"><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>worlds of =
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emerging
communications environment and to demonstrate the </span></font></p>

value of =
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