id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt doi-org-5936 What More Can We Do to Address Broadband Inequity and Digital Poverty? | Information Technology and Libraries .html text/html 537 76 29 While libraries have always worked to help breach the digital divide by providing free Internet access, public access computers and teaching media literacy, the current pandemic has made it abundantly clear that much more needs to be done. Cecilia Kang, "Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline," The New York Times, May 20, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/parking-lots-wifi-coronavirus.html. It's past time to get serious about universal broadband in the U.S." Facebook, August 16, 2020, 5:37 a.m., https://www.facebook.com/gina.millsap.7/posts/10218986781485855. Willcox, "Libraries and Schools Are Bridging the Digital Divide During the Coronavirus Pandemic," Consumer Reports, last modified April 29, 2020, https://www.consumerreports.org/technology-telecommunications/libraries-and-schools-ridging-the-digital-divide-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/. Now They're Closed," The Markup, June 25, 2020, https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/06/25/millions-of-americans-depend-on-libraries-for-internet-now-theyre-closed. "Libraries Respond: COVID-19 Survey," American Library Association, accessed August 25, 2020, http://www.ilovelibraries.org/sites/default/files/MAY-2020-COVID-Survey-PDF-Summary-of-Results-web-2.pdf. "Newsom Issues Executive Order on Digital Divide," CHEAC (Improving the Health of All Californians), last modified August 14, 2020, https://cheac.org/2020/08/14/newsom-issues-executive-order-on-digital-divide/. Sarah Chase Webber, "The Library's Role in Bridging the Digital Divide", Urban Libraries Council, last modified March 28, 2019, https://www.urbanlibraries.org/blog/the-librarys-role-in-bridging-the-digital-divide. ./cache/doi-org-5936.html ./txt/doi-org-5936.txt