Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007 Report

The full report, “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007 Report” has been published. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the American Library Association (ALA), the Study is part of a sustained effort to provide current information that describes access to computers and the Internet in U.S. public libraries

You can find it at www.ala.org/plinternetfunding or purchase a copy online at the ALA Store: http://tinyurl.com/3cb83p.

Quick link to the full 227-page report in pdf: Download complete Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007

If time is short, and you just want to see the report highlights, see these three sections.

• Executive Brief: The State of Technology and Funding in U.S. Public Libraries in 2007
  Authors: Larra Clark, Denise M. Davis
• The Library Funding Landscape
  Author: Denise M. Davis
• Challenges for the Future and A Call to Action
  Authors: John Carlo Bertot, Denise M. Davis, Charles R. McClure