Kansas Rural Broadband Summit
Last Week, Representative Tom Sloan, of the Kansas legislature, convened a summit on issues affecting rural broadband deployment. Several telecom industry representatives, government officials and other stakeholders gathered in Lawrence, KS to discuss these critical issues. Several months ago, as a member of an Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) site-visit team, I went to [...]
Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests
Attention to all groups and organization that have received an Improving Literacy Through School Libraries (ILSL) Grant:
The Dept. of Education invites comments and feedback concerning the proposed information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues:
Is this [...]
Arkansas Librarian Laments State of Rural Broadband at Senate Hearing
WASHINGTON – Today, David Burdick, Director of the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Library System in Arkansas, testified on the insufficiency of broadband in Arkansas libraries before a field hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee.
The hearing – “The State of Broadband in Arkansas” – was organized by Senator Mark Pryor and featured several prominent figures in Arkansas [...]
OneWebDay
What does the world wide web mean to you? How has it changed the world in which we operate? Your own day-to-day activities? More importantly, how has it changed your library, the community it serves and the public that relies on the library for use of this essential technology? On September [...]
ALA Applauds Sen. Leahy for Donating Movie Earnings to Library
PRESS RELEASE
WASHINGTON – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) will have a role in next summer’s Batman movie, The Dark Knight, earnings from which the Senator will be donating to the children’s wing of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, VT, where Leahy got his first library card.
The American Library Association thanks and applauds Sen. Leahy for his [...]
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