Librarians closing the broadband gap « Blandin on Broadband

Want to know who is at the far end of the digital divide? Visit a public library and see who is there. Ask them why they’re there. Do they have a computer? Do they have broadband? Are there siblings hogging the one computer? Maybe they don’t understand how to fill out an online job (or medicare) application.

The Pioneer Press ran a nice article about librarians . In it, Susan Nemitz Ramsey County library director outline a few steps that we need to take to seriously address the growing gap...