Net Access Up, but PLs Stretched.

Reports that while nearly all U.S. public libraries offer free access to computers and the Internet as of August 2005, the gains are countered by a lack of workstations to meet demand and funds to pay for connectivity and upgrades. Details of research by the Information Use Management and Policy Institute at Florida State University, commissioned by the American Library Association and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; How the Gates Foundation's Global Libraries program will offer $30 million in grants for hardware replacement at 2000 library systems in the U.S.