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www-urbanlibraries-org-8027		The Library’s Role in Bridging the Digital Divide			.html	text/html	1770	166	64	The below blog post examines the impact of the digital divide and how public libraries can work to bridge the gap to create social and racial equity for those within their communities. Mary Stansbury, PhD, associate professor at Morgridge College of Education's online Master of Library and Information Science program from the University of Denver, says they have done so by providing digital access during the "very first years of widely geographically available internet" and making the most of an amendment to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that allowed libraries and schools to adopt the internet at a heavily discounted rate. As noted in the Pew Research study mentioned previously, the digital divide is greater for minorities and low-income individuals — dynamics that influence racial and social equity in a variety of ways. These are just a few of the creative ways that libraries are advancing their race and social equity work to better support their communities.	./cache/www-urbanlibraries-org-8027.html	./txt/www-urbanlibraries-org-8027.txt