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Focuses on the People's Network Internet access program in Great Britain. Total number of public libraries provided by the program; Source of funding for the program; Impact of computer technology on the learning of school children.

Points out that teachers in Great Britain lack sleep and this makes them irritable, less effective in the classroom and more likely to succumb to stress, which results in finding it even more difficult to sleep. Effect of the relentless pressure of the job and the computer; Suggestion to take a nap after lunch; Effect of free Internet access at libraries.

Reports on the criticism to British Telecom's (BT) offer to provide cheap Internet access to college, libraries and citizens. Number of schools who signed up; Restrictions on the cheap Internet deal to term time; Cost of the proposed tariff for all Great Britain public libraries.

Discusses how the library in Luton, England is a model for the 21st century at the launch of the government's strategy for information and communications technology (ICT). The strategy, which envisages a central role for libraries in widening access for all to ICT; The desire to have every library to be connected to the National Grid for Learning by 2002; Comments of Chris Smith, the Culture, Media and Sport secretary.