FCC REPORT TOUTS 'CENTRAL ROLE' OF LIBRARIES

摘要

The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities in June delivered a report on the media landscape in a broadband age. Although the report's section on libraries contains nothing startling to those in the library community, the group does provide among its recommendations a strong endorsement of the "central role" of libraries in "the information life of their communities" and issues a challenge to tech companies, reproduced here in full: "Strong Libraries: Rather than being rendered obsolete by the Internet, libraries are playing an ever more important role in the information life of their communities. Forty percent of those in poverty say their sole access to the Internet is through the library.