Digital Divide (Wk 9)

I recently blogged about an article that talked about the Digital Divide. It talked about the Internet being as essential as food and water. The solution was to offer free or discounted access to the Internet to close the gap on this digital divide.

My solution was to give hungry people free food instead of free Internet. I sited that public libraries gave everyone the ability to utilize the Internet for free.

A few days later, news headlines talked about closing four branches of the Boston Public Library(BPL). Money used to provide free or cheap access to the Internet could be used to save our public libraries.


The BPL provides many services and materials for everyone.


Internet access is available utilizing your laptop or you can take advantage of the library's desktop computers.


Meeting rooms are available at the BPL that are nicer than the conference rooms at my office. These conference rooms are available for as many as 342 guests.

You can get discount tickets to museums through the library.

Tax forms are available at the library.

There are services for people who have English as a Second Language (ESL). Through the BPL

There are many events on the BPL home page. Visit the web site to see what is happening. You can find writing workshops different language confersation groups, job search networking groups, and story times for kids.

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