Library Cataloging
The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association (ALA) has released Fiber to the Library: How Public Libraries Can Benefit from Using Fiber Optics for their Broadband Internet Connections It "articulates the benefits of fiber optic technology for public libraries and strategies to obtain such fiber connectivity. An important goal of this policy brief is to help applicants include ?fiber to the library? in their federal broadband stimulus funding proposals under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)."My local library, Helen Hall, is receiving Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds to get a new cooling system.
- Help Protect Statewide Library Programs
Take action. Budget Proposal Demolishes State Funding for Libraries The State?s budget proposals for 2012-13 affect our statewide library programs. The budgets ELIMINATE Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries), all state funding for...
- Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs
Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs The first draft of the State's budget proposal for 2012-13 affects every statewide library program. The proposal: Eliminates Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries)Eliminates...
- Stimulus Funding
The American Library Association's website Know Your Stimulus includes new information on Broadband Funding. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has begun to populate its website with details regarding broadband stimulus...
- Stimulus Package
Ask and you shall receive or at least find. It seems ALA was on the ball and has been active in asking for funding for libraries. Include Public Libraries in Recovery Funding! is a page where you can send an email to your senators. I've used it to...
- Public Broadcasting
I generally avoid politics, but I have such stong feeleings about this issue I have to break that policy.A House panel has voted to eliminate all funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other commercial-free children's...
Library Cataloging
Funding
The Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) of the American Library Association (ALA) has released Fiber to the Library: How Public Libraries Can Benefit from Using Fiber Optics for their Broadband Internet Connections It "articulates the benefits of fiber optic technology for public libraries and strategies to obtain such fiber connectivity. An important goal of this policy brief is to help applicants include ?fiber to the library? in their federal broadband stimulus funding proposals under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)."My local library, Helen Hall, is receiving Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds to get a new cooling system.
- Help Protect Statewide Library Programs
Take action. Budget Proposal Demolishes State Funding for Libraries The State?s budget proposals for 2012-13 affect our statewide library programs. The budgets ELIMINATE Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries), all state funding for...
- Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs
Proposed Texas Budget Demolishes Statewide Library Programs The first draft of the State's budget proposal for 2012-13 affects every statewide library program. The proposal: Eliminates Loan Star Libraries (direct aid grants to public libraries)Eliminates...
- Stimulus Funding
The American Library Association's website Know Your Stimulus includes new information on Broadband Funding. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has begun to populate its website with details regarding broadband stimulus...
- Stimulus Package
Ask and you shall receive or at least find. It seems ALA was on the ball and has been active in asking for funding for libraries. Include Public Libraries in Recovery Funding! is a page where you can send an email to your senators. I've used it to...
- Public Broadcasting
I generally avoid politics, but I have such stong feeleings about this issue I have to break that policy.A House panel has voted to eliminate all funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other commercial-free children's...