Broadband
Libraries and museums are using broadband to expand access to content and create communities where all people have the ability to access and use information technologies.
National Initiative: Digitally Inclusive Communities
Full participation in American society requires the ability to access and use digital content and technologies. Libraries, businesses, hospitals, schools, cultural institutions, community technology centers and local governments face difficult decisions about how to create and sustain access to broadband technologies.
Search the Awarded Grants database for grants to broadband programs (issue areas have only been assigned to grants awarded since FY 2009)
Broadband content on the IMLS Web site:
September 14, 2012 08:48 AM
Lack of digital skills impacts the lives millions of Americans. This new resource will provide free high quality tools and training.
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September 13, 2012 12:58 PM
The project will take the first steps to bring together existing U.S. digital library infrastructure into a sustainable national digital library system.
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September 12, 2012 11:08 AM
Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will explore how libraries can adopt and use next-generation internet.
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July 18, 2012 10:36 AM
Together America’s Public Libraries and America’s Job Centers are teaching digital skills that are essential for job searches and more.
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June 20, 2012 08:47 AM
President Obama Announces an initiative to make cities and towns test-beds for next-generation applications.
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June 18, 2012 02:25 PM
Library education grants, a grant for a new effort to increase broadband adoption, and a new "Talking Points" series are just some of the things keeping IMLS busy as we we prepare for ALA's annual meeting.
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Five museums and five libraries have won the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities.
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Garden State communities are quickly finding that history and high-tech intersect on the New Jersey Digital Highway, a newly developed web portal that is linking historical institutions around the state and helping to digitize their rich collections.
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March 1, 2012 02:16 PM
A guide to help spark community conversation and action to increase broadband adoption and use.
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The Framework encourages engagement across all sectors of the community so that "all people, businesses, and institutions have access to digital content and technologies that enable them to create and support healthy, prosperous, and cohesive 21st century communities.”
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This brief provides a demographic analysis of public access computer users and uses and demonstrates that public libraries are providing much more than basic technology access.
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Quick summary of the impact of library services for digital literacy and broadband adoption.
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