ALA | American Libraries - Gates Foundation Awards $2.7 Million to Alabama Libraries

Site Navigation

Left Sidebar Items

Online Features

Follow American Libraries news stories, videos, and blog posts on Twitter.

NEW! Interview: Mohammad Abbas talks about his role as head of the new Library Department of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the nations parliament in Baghdad.
Exclusive interview with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Interview with Judith Krug, 1995.
Interview: Andrew Pace Explains Why OCLC’s “Quick Start” Is a Sea Change . An April 24 conversation with American Libraries Editor in Chief Leonard Kniffel on OCLC's foray into web-scale management.
Read This Now: ALA’s Award-winners Represent the Best for Library Collections.The chairs of many of ALA's book and media award committees discuss their selections. Includes a complete review of RUSA's Outstanding Reference Sources.
Stimulate Your Library: How libraries can benefit from the 2009 stimulus bill.
Login is no longer required to view the current issue or archives online. First-time viewers need to install the ebrary reader. (Firefox 3 users: Note this workaround needed.)
AL Inside Scoop, American Libraries’ blog.
American Libraries: The First 100 Years, a timeline, 1907–2007

Gates Foundation Awards $2.7 Million to Alabama Libraries

Libraries in Alabama have been awarded over $2.7 million in grants for new computer hardware from the Gates Library Foundation. Nearly every public library in the state—over 250 altogether—will benefit from the gift.

Alabama is the foundation's first "Statewide Library Partnership" in a $400-million commitment to bringing access to computers and digital information to patrons in low-income communities in the United States and Canada. Microsoft software has also been donated to each grant recipient.

In addition, each library will receive technical assistance and training from the Technology Resource Institute, a Seattle nonprofit organization funded by the foundation to act as its on-site and telephone technical support arm.

The foundation was established in June last year by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates (see American Libraries, Aug. 1997, p. 14–15.)

Posted February 2, 1998.

American Libraries

Site Navigation

Left Sidebar Items

Online Features

Gates Foundation Awards $2.7 Million to Alabama Libraries

Right Sidebar