A sound that’s almost synonymous with visiting a quiet public library — the clacking of fingers on public computers — is slowly slipping toward possible extinction. In analysis of public library data ...

When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback. "People scoffed and said, 'Why would you go ...

A pair of library science researchers are working to integrate inexpensive, child-friendly computer coding tools into school and public libraries. Crystle Martin, a post-doctoral student at the ...

PIERRE, S.D. -- More than 100 local libraries across South Dakota have new computers for public use, under a new initiative begun by Gov. Bill Janklow this spring. "South Dakota is the most-wired ...

Libraries in the Roanoke and New River valleys will get dozens of computers thanks to a grant announced Tuesday from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation's grants total $8.1 million ...

Beam us up, Scotty, to the glass-skeined, futuristic floors of Seattle's new Central Library. Free wireless service will be available on every inch of the building's 11 floors. With a single beep, ...

Jean Armour Polly was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019 for evangelizing computers in public libraries, the precursor to the... When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first ...