September 3, 2010 (FCC September Agenda Does Not Include Broadband Reclassification)
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INTERNET/BROADBAND
FCC September Agenda Does Not Include Broadband Reclassification
See also: Public Knowledge Applauds FCC Proposals On Broadcast "White Spaces," "E-Rate" Reform
How the threats to the Internet's openness can be averted
New Internet Access Data from FCC
See also:Seriously, FCC, Get a Move On
How Neutral Is The Internet?
New America Letter on Clarify Prioritization Practices on the NET
Net Neutrality's New Enemy: The Mythical Mushy Middle
Sen Kerry Renews Call For Open Net Rules
Frontier plans $40 million investment in Illinois broadband
OWNERSHIP
Silicon Valley companies making billion-dollar deals
See, for example, Cisco to buy wireless smart grid firm
WIRELESS
Cell phones and American adults
Be Mobile or Be Dust
CYBERSECURITY
Scientists view cybersecurity as an intimidating conundrum
DIGITAL CONTENT
Amazon, Apple Rivalry Moves Beyond Music and E-Books Into TV Shows
YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue
Japan Pioneers Use of Cameras, Sensors That Let Signs Identify Their Audience
Google's music entreaties fall favorably on record companies' ears
HEALTH
Two New Beacon Communities
MEDIA AND ELECTIONS
Democratic governors file complaint on Fox
COMMUNITY MEDIA
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On the Media: ESPN can't just bigfoot its way into local markets
Your New Sunday Chicago Tribune?
Increase in free audio downloads at public libraries
Do Public Libraries Still Have Value?
County scaling back Silver Spring library
Closing the Books
Hey "Stop!," what's that sound?
MORE ONLINE
FCC.gov poised for an overdue overhaul
FCC Says DISH Can Deliver Distant Signals
Independent probe blasts PG&E's for poor Smart Meters customer service
The Mosque Debate Continues to Galvanize the Blogosphere
INTERNET/BROADBAND
FCC OPEN MEETING AGENDA
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission, AUTHOR: ]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced four items will be on the tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Thursday, September 23, 2010. The big news is what's missing: reclassification of broadband services -- the "Third Way" proposal the Chairman introduced earlier this year.
TV White Spaces Second MO&O: A Second Memorandum Opinion and Order that will create opportunities for investment and innovation in advanced Wi-Fi technologies and a variety of broadband services by finalizing provisions for unlicensed wireless devices to operate in unused parts of TV spectrum.
E-Rate Broadband Order: An Order that improves connectivity for students and library patrons, and accelerates the National Broadband Plan's goal of affordable access to 1 gigabit per second broadband at community anchor institutions across the country, by upgrading, modernizing, and streamlining the E-Rate program.
E911 Location Accuracy Second R&O: A Report and Order enabling a more effective emergency response system by establishing a timeline and benchmarks for wireless carriers to provide more granular E911 location information at either a county-based or PSAP-based geographic level.
E911 Location Accuracy FNPRM and NOI: A Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Inquiry seeking to improve E911 location accuracy and reliability for existing and new voice communications technologies, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and, consistent with the National Broadband Plan, to understand the ways in which voice communications enabled by broadband and next generation 911 technologies could support enhanced first response.
benton.org/node/41395 | Federal Communications Commission | The Hill | ars technica - white spaces
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HOW THREATS TO OPENNESS CAN BE AVERTED
[SOURCE: The Economist, AUTHOR: ]
As divergent forces tug at the Internet's, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate digital domains. The Internet's is as much a trade pact as an invention. A network of networks, it has grown at an astonishing rate over the past 15 years because the bigger it got, the more it made sense for other networks to connect to it. Its open standards made such interconnections cheap and easy, dissolving boundaries between existing academic, corporate and consumer networks (remember CompuServe and AOL?). Just as a free-trade agreement between countries increases the size of the market and boosts gains from trade, so the Internet's led to greater gains from the exchange of data and allowed innovation to flourish. But now the Internet's is so large and so widely used that countries, companies and network operators want to wall bits of it off, or make parts of it work in a different way, to promote their own political or commercial interests. Three sets of walls are being built. The first is national. Second, companies are exerting greater control by building "walled gardens"—an approach that appeared to have died out a decade ago. Third, there are concerns that network operators looking for new sources of revenue will strike deals with content providers that will favour those websites prepared to pay up. The best solution would be to require telecoms operators to open their high-speed networks to rivals on a wholesale basis, as is the case almost everywhere in the industrialized world.
benton.org/node/41405 | Economist, The | Economist - Future of Net
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FCC RELEASES NEW DATA ON INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission, AUTHOR: ]
The Federal Communications Commission has detailed data on the number of Internet connections at speeds that approximate the national broadband availability target recommended by the National Broadband Plan. The report focuses on multiple and higher speed tiers, rather than on the FCC's historical categories of "high speed" (any Internet connection with speeds over 200 kilobits per second downstream) or "advanced services."
Report highlights include the following, as of June 2009:
Out of a total of 71 million fixed - as opposed to mobile - connections to households, only 44% met or exceeded the speed tier that most closely approximates the universal availability target set in the National Broadband Plan of 4 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 1 Mbps upstream
The number of mobile wireless service subscribers with data plans for full Internet access increased by 40% over the first six months of 2009, to 35 million
Cable modem connections increased by 3% to 41 million and aDSL by 1% to 31 million in the first six months of 2009
A 23% increase in fiber connections, to 4 million, was the largest rate of increase among fixed-location technologies
Satellite Internet connections increased by 6% to 1 million
benton.org/node/41393 | Federal Communications Commission | read the report | see the charts | FCC blog | Congress Daily
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SERIOUSLY, FCC, GET A MOVE ON
[SOURCE: GigaOm, AUTHOR: Om Malik]
[Commentary] The Federal Communications Commission's Internet Access Services report has a lot of fascinating data, but the problem is that the report has data that is 14 months old, which makes it pretty much worthless. Sure, government officials and politicians may use the data, but who really cares if there were 71 million fixed broadband connections at the end of June, 2009? Likewise, the fact that nearly 41 million folks used cable broadband that long ago is pretty much worthless. I'm not sure why the FCC even bothers to collect this data if it can't release it sooner. It's nice to have the data, but it's just not useful so late in the game. The only place where 14-month old stats make any sense is in a baseball fantasy league. If FCC wants to build a case for better broadband, I personally feel that they should try to collect data faster and deliver it faster than any research firm. Otherwise, they should outsource to commercial research companies that can do the job faster. Why not use that information? Unless I'm missing a big point, it seems there isn't that much of a variation: The FCC says at the end of the second quarter of 2009 there were 71 million broadband subscribers. Research from Leichtman Research Group, which doesn't include satellite, Internet connections put the number at around 70 million -- in a report released in August 2009.
benton.org/node/41404 | GigaOm
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HOW NEUTRAL IS THE INTERNET?
[SOURCE: National Journal, AUTHOR: Eliza Krigman]
Whether the Internet is truly a democratic forum was called into question this week in a dispute about Internet traffic management between AT&T and the consumer advocacy group Free Press. The feud boiled down to what it means to have "paid prioritization," a phenomenon viewed as anathema by advocates of Internet openness, and to what extent preferential treatment of content already takes place. The issue is at the very heart of a broader debate about what regulatory steps are necessary, if any, to ensure the Internet remains an engine of economic growth and a platform of equal value to people across the socioeconomic spectrum. AT&T, in a letter filed with the Federal Communications Commission, argued that paid prioritization of Internet traffic, contrary to claims made by Free Press, is already a common practice of Web management and consistent with protocols set by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Largely unknown to people outside the technology field, IETF is a professional organization composed of engineers that develop standards for the Internet; for over two decades, it has played an integral role in the management of the Internet. The current chair of the IETF, Russ Housley, disagrees with AT&T's assessment. "AT&T's characterization is misleading," Housley said. "IETF prioritization technology is geared toward letting network users indicate how they want network providers to handle their traffic, and there is no implication in the IETF about payment based on any prioritization."
benton.org/node/41390 | National Journal
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NEW AMERICA PRIORITIZATION LETTER
[SOURCE: New America Foundation, AUTHOR: Josh King,Benjamin Lennett,Sascha Meinrath,Dan Meredith]
New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission responding to AT&T's letter of August 30th, 2010 concerning the use of traffic prioritization. OTI's letter seeks to rebut AT&T's assertions that traffic prioritization technologies are already in widespread use and any attempt to restrain the use of those technologies would be harmful to the functioning of the Internet. "AT&T ability to create confusion over paid prioritization is exactly why the FCC needs to set clear and transparent rules," stated Sascha Meinrath, Director of OTI. "Paid prioritization targeting minority communities is deeply concerning and should immediately be investigated by the FCC." OTI's letter describes how the Internet traffic prioritization technologies cited by AT&T are currently used with enterprise-class customers to allow them to set traffic priorities for their broadband connection. These practices are distinct from a 3rd party paid prioritization model for residential broadband customers which would be used to set up a slow and fast lane for Internet content and applications that would be inconsistent with network neutrality principles and establish a completely new model fundamentally different from AT&T's claimed status quo. "In their letter, AT&T seeks to confuse the issue by conflating good network practices currently in use with traffic prioritization techniques that could potentially be harmful to Internet users in the near future," said Josh King, Staff Technologist for OTI. "We are trying to clarify that distinction."
benton.org/node/41389 | New America Foundation
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MYTHICAL MUSHY MIDDLE
[SOURCE: The Huffington Post, AUTHOR: Craig Aaron]
[Commentary] The fight over net neutrality is red hot right now. Since news broke that Google and Verizon were hatching a plan to carve up the Internet, millions have woken up to the fact that the Internet is in jeopardy and the would-be watchdogs at the Federal Communications Commission aren't doing much about it. Those of us who've been in the trenches the past few years defending the free and open Internet from a corporate takeover understand that -- like in any high-stakes political debate -- things can get a little ugly. When you're challenging the interests of giant corporations like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, you have to expect they're going to spread misinformation, call you names, hire astroturf front groups to attack you, and spend gobs and gobs of money to co-opt Congress and confuse the public. That's politics. This is a big moment. If we're ever going to safeguard the open Internet, the time is now. But all of this noise and attention is making certain people very uncomfortable. You know the type: I call them the guardians of the mythical mushy middle. And I'm starting to think these self-righteous, can't-we-all-just-get-along zealots of moderation are more dangerous to the prospects of net neutrality than the greedy industry CEOs, their hired guns, or even Glenn Beck.
benton.org/node/41387 | Huffington Post, The
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OWNERSHIP
SILICON VALLEY'S BILLION DOLLAR DEALS
[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News, AUTHOR: Steve Johnson, Brandon Bailey]
Call it the season of billion-dollar deals. From Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems to Intel and Oracle, some of Silicon Valley's largest companies charged out of the recession with fat bankrolls and a determination to spend whatever it takes this year to reshape their businesses around emerging technologies. If the buying binge continues, 2010 could rank among the biggest for billion-dollar deals in a decade. Companies in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties already have announced five purchases worth at least $1 billion this year, according to the 451 Group, which has compiled such data since 2002. The previous record -- last set in 2009 -- was seven. In what could become the year's sixth mega deal, the outcome of a bidding war between HP and Dell was likely to be decided this morning, when Fremont data-storage company 3Par is scheduled to announce whether it has accepted HP's offer of about $2 billion. But analysts expect the wave of deals in the valley to continue.
benton.org/node/41392 | San Jose Mercury News
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WIRELESS
CELL PHONES AND AMERICAN ADULTS
[SOURCE: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, AUTHOR: Amanda Lenhart]
Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by adolescents. Some 72% of adult cell phone users send and receive text messages now, up from 65% in September 2009. Fully 87% of teen cell users text. Teens text 50 messages a day on average, five times more than the typical 10 text messages sent and received by adults per day. Still, for most adults, voice calling is their primary use of the phone. They make and receive about 5 calls per day on average.
African American and English-speaking Hispanics are more likely to own a cell phone and to use their handset more intensively than their white counterparts.
87% of African Americans and English-speaking Hispanics own cell phones, compared to 80% of whites.
12% of African American and 14% of English-speaking Hispanics make and receive more than 30 calls a day on their mobile phones. 4% of whites report placing and receive that many calls.
African American and Hispanic texters typical send and receive 10 texts a day; whites who text typically send and receive 5 texts a day.
For all of their enthusiasm for texting and talking on their cells, Americans have mixed feelings about the role of the mobile phone in their lives. Most cell users report that their cell phone makes them feel safer (91%), and that they appreciate the way it allows them to arrange plans with family and friends (88% agree.) But mobile phone users also report that they get irritated when a call or text interrupts them (42%) and that they find it rude when others check their phones repeatedly during meetings or conversations (86%).
benton.org/node/41382 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
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BE MOBILE OR BE DUST
[SOURCE: AdAge, AUTHOR: BL Ochman]
[Commentary] A new report from Burson-Marsteller and Proof Integrated Communications finds:
Companies who are not already engaging with stakeholders via mobile are missing infinite business and revenue-generating opportunities created by exponential mobile growth. And, once mobile is even more pervasive in a few years, businesses who are not in the mobile space risk being squeezed out by competitors.
Mobile users are not passive. They seek information, manage personal finances, interact with others and shop. They are seeking content and tools relevant to their needs.
Mobile is not just for young people. Eighty-two percent of seniors use their mobile phones for information and learning.
Location-based targeting is the a critical distinction that makes mobile communications more powerful than other channels. Knowing where a mobile user is - whether if be in a store, with friends, at a restaurant or at the office - can help businesses know which content is most relevant to deliver to the consumer at that moment.
benton.org/node/41391 | AdAge | read the report
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CYBERSECURITY
CYBERSECURITY CHALLENGES RESEARCHERS
[SOURCE: nextgov, AUTHOR: Aliya Sternstein]
The Internet's extensive cybersecurity vulnerabilities are so hard to fix that information technology researchers sometimes avoid studying the topic like they were steering clear of the seamy underbelly of a great metropolitan city, top scientists said. Jeannette M. Wing, who served as assistant director of the computer and information science and engineering directorate at the National Science Foundation from 2007 until recently, was called in by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to discuss specific areas in the networking and information technology sector that the federal government should be investing research and development funds in. "I think cybersecurity . . . is the most difficult challenge. And it's not just a societal and political challenge. It's a technical challenge," said Wing, who this summer returned to her post as head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. "Leadership needs to come from the top since no one sector of government, industry and academia can address this challenge alone." PCAST, which is composed of the nation's leading scientists and engineers, makes recommendations to the president on policies ranging from flu vaccine production to nanotechnology. The panel is working on a networking and IT research and development study.
benton.org/node/41386 | nextgov
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DIGITAL CONTENT
THE BATTLE OVER THE TV
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Geoffrey Fowler, Sam Schechner]
TV shows are emerging as a new front in the war over digital media between Amazon and Apple, amid their ongoing battles over electronic books and online music. Hours after Apple said that it would begin renting some shows for 99 cents per episode, Amazon cut its price on a similar set of shows to 99 cents from $2.99. And unlike Apple, which rents the videos, Amazon lets its customers buy the shows. A price battle between the tech titans could help drive consumer interest in the nascent market for paid on-demand video over the Internet. But it could also drive away the media giants that Apple and Amazon are counting on to feed them with TV content. Some media executives worry low prices could eventually undermine the existing TV business.
benton.org/node/41402 | Wall Street Journal | WSJ - Intel and AppleTV
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YOUTUBE AD REVENUE
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Claire Cain Miller]
YouTube is an increasingly fruitful place for advertisers. And although users may post clips of programming protected by copyright law, content owners are allowing the videos to stay up -- for a split of YouTube's ad revenue. Remarkably, more than one-third of the two billion views of YouTube videos with ads each week are uploaded without the copyright owner's permission but left up by the owner's choice. They are automatically recognized by YouTube, using a system called Content ID that scans videos and compares them to material provided by copyright owners. Those two billion views, a 50 percent increase over last year, according to the company, are just 14 percent of the videos viewed each week on the Google-owned site. But that's enough to turn YouTube profitable this year, analysts say.
benton.org/node/41401 | New York Times
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INTERACTIVE BILLBOARDS
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Daisuke Wakabayashi, Juro Osawa]
Japan is taking the lead in adding cameras and sensors to glean more information about who is looking at signs and electronic public displays—flat-screen monitors used like billboards—and is incorporating cellphone technology to make them more interactive. The idea is to transform billboards and the like into sophisticated marketing tools that identify and target a specific audience. NEC Corp., the third-largest maker of public displays, behind Panasonic Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co., is using facial-recognition technology that can determine how many people looked at a particular display, their gender and even their level of attentiveness. NEC said the technology allows advertisers to gather hard data about the display's effectiveness. The company says its system can identify people's gender correctly about 90% of the time and guess a person's age within a 10-year range about 70% of the time.
benton.org/node/41400 | Wall Street Journal
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GOOGLE MUSIC
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Alex Pham]
Google, which is developing a digital music service, is finding a warm welcome at record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple's grip on the digital music market with its iTunes music store. The talks center on securing a sweeping set of licenses that would give Google the latitude to offer an array of products and services through its Android operating system for mobile phones as well as through computer browsers, said executives familiar with the discussions. Music companies have all but rolled out the red carpet for Google, believing that it can serve as a counterweight against Apple, which controls more than 80% of digital music sales via its iTunes store. Though record companies collect 70% of the revenue generated by iTunes, they have bristled under Apple's terms, which have in the past limited the prices music companies can charge, among other things. With Google on the scene, the hope is that music companies can dilute their dependence on Apple.
benton.org/node/41399 | Los Angeles Times
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MEDIA AND ELECTIONS
DGA FILES FOX COMPLAINT
[SOURCE: Associated Press, AUTHOR:]
The Democratic Governors Association filed an elections complaint in Ohio alleging Fox News Network illegally helped the Republican gubernatorial nominee solicit funds during a television appearance. In documents filed Sept 2, the association says Fox allowed John Kasich to request contributions from viewers and displayed the address of his campaign website during a broadcast Aug. 18. The complaint alleges the free publicity was an improper contribution to Kasich's campaign. The association wants Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland re-elected. Kasich, a former congressman, Lehman Brothers managing director and Fox commentator, is keeping pace with Strickland in polls and fundraising. A Kasich spokesman declined comment. Fox said it had not been served with the complaint and couldn't comment.
benton.org/node/41398 | Associated Press
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COMMUNITY MEDIA
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ON THE MEDIA: ESPN CAN'T JUST BIGFOOT ITS WAY INTO LOCAL MARKETS
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: James Rainey]
Perhaps ESPN will one day dominate metro and community sports news the way it does the national sports universe. But it won't get there simply by showing up and announcing its arrival. The recent dispute involved a high school football telecast. But the all-sports network may face similar challenges as it plunges into local sports coverage online. It can't just show up - as it has in Los Angeles and four other cities in the last year - and expect to earn a permanent and meaningful foothold in these local markets. The ESPN brand carries a lot of weight and has been a powerful revenue engine for its parent Walt Disney Co. But it remains far from certain whether the expansion into metropolitan markets around America, announced about a year ago, will snatch huge chunks of the audience from established local outlets.
benton.org/node/41380 | Los Angeles Times
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YOUR NEW SUNDAY TRIBUNE?
[SOURCE: Chicago Reader, AUTHOR: Michael Miner]
[Commentary] When I describe the Tribune's top-secret project, everybody makes the same snarky comment. The Tribune is designing a weekly edition that it will offer subscribers for a surcharge. The premium content will consist of long, thoughtful reporting and commentary-local in its focus-on the news and cultural affairs. The inevitable comment is this: That's what the Tribune is already supposed to be doing. Once upon a time perhaps it did. But the abbreviated coverage a diminished staff has been offering readers since Sam Zell took over has cleared out plenty of room for the Tribune to create a new product that's a quantum improvement. The Tribune is calling this new product by a rich and ancient name, Five Star-signifying the final edition, the one with the ball scores and theater reviews, the one a big city wakes up to in the morning. Sources tell me the Trib hopes to roll it out in January.
benton.org/node/41379 | Chicago Reader
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INCREASE IN FREE AUDIO DOWNLOADS AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES
[SOURCE: WSAV-TV, AUTHOR: Joann Merrigan]
Ever wondered what all those people you see walking with iPods are listening to? If you assume just music, you may be wrong. More and more people are taking advantage of free book downloads offered by the public library. Diane Bronson, the collection development coordinator at Live Oak Public Libraries in Savannah, says a digital download for hand held devices is becoming more popular every month. "It's better than a library book from my point of view because you don't have to keep track of it or worry about returning it," she tells me. Bronson says with a click of the mouse, many are downloading the latest best seller and then really going portable in terms of the flexibility of how they listen to that book. "We are iPad compatible as well as MP-3." Bronson shows me. "And these are all the new releases."
benton.org/node/41378 | WSAV-TV
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DO PUBLIC LIBRARIES STILL HAVE VALUE?
[SOURCE: hburgnews.com, AUTHOR: Jeremiah Knupp]
[Commentary] Last week, Massanutten Regional Library announced that it would close two of its branches in the small communities of Bergton and Stanley, while reducing hours of operation at four of its other locations. In announcing its decision of triage, the library's Board of Trustees sited a quarter million dollars in funding that has been lost over the past three years in spite of the fact that nearly 6,000 new patrons have signed up for library cards during the same period. As a society we endorse our values with our pocket book. So we're left asking ourselves "Do public libraries still have value?" Are they merely archaic and dying institutions that are a needless drain on our limited resources in the tight times of the Internet Age or is it important that there is a repository of knowledge left that is not held captive by a power outlet, a wireless signal or a password and is available to anyone who is willing to spend the effort to pursue it? Is it better to put a book in a child's hand or a golf club? Does everyone have the right to access the Internet or only those who can afford it? Are we more secure with smart weapons or smart citizens?
benton.org/node/41377 | hburgnews.com
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CLOSING THE BOOKS
[SOURCE: Newsweek, AUTHOR: David A. Graham]
In July, the Charlotte (NC) library adopted a new budget that slashed nearly 30 percent of its funding and about 300 employees. In New York, libraries narrowly dodged an $82 million round of cuts thanks to public outcry earlier this year. The Milwaukee library system adopted austerity measures, only to find itself penalized for cutting too far. And the Free Library of Philadelphia only avoided a total shutdown through an act of the Pennsylvania State Senate...For desperate officials, it's a soft target, but librarians warn that cutting hours and positions might actually slow down the pace of recovery. The catch is that libraries are experiencing increased demand, too, in Charlotte and elsewhere. A study by the Institute of Museum and Library Services released in June found a 20 percent increase in library use over the last decade. And because libraries are often the only source, or one of a very few, for free Internet access and job counseling, the trend is only increasing during the recession, the ALA says. Anecdotal evidence suggests greater numbers of job seekers using library computers to look for jobs, write résumés, and seek advice. There's also research that suggests that libraries contribute significantly to the prosperity of their communities, offering up to 800 percent return on investment for taxpayer dollars in job creation, productivity, and personal incomes.
benton.org/node/41375 | Newsweek
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