In this resource, the Heartland Foundation explains why it held a webinar for library staff to learn more about the FCC's Emergency Broadband Benefit program.

This resource provides tools and guidelines that libraries can use to evaluate their current and future needs and to find broadband services that fit their budgets and goals. Using this report, a library or library system will be able to specify needs such as bandwidth, quality of service, and network type.

This document is intended to assist policymakers and library professionals to fully understand the importance of prioritizing bandwidth and internet access for today and the future. It describes how libraries currently use bandwidth to fulfill their mission, how that role is expanding and evolving, and how library professionals and policymakers can quantify the bandwidth libraries need to incubate opportunity and innovation.

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This needs assessment and spending plan presented by CENIC identifies the broadband needs of the California public library system, including faster internet and an infrastructure plan to support connectivity. It recommends that the public library system joins California's preexisting Research & Education Network to become part of a larger "education ecology".

This resource explores whether public libraries have the potential to be the new hubs for telehealth services in urban and rural markets, to broaden the availability of health care. As anchor institutions, libraries can drive large numbers of people onto networks. The article discusses considerations that must be made if libraries plan to offer access to telehealth, such as how to schedule different types of health appointments and expanding remote capabilities.

This resource examines the necessity and benefits of enabling community anchor institutions to connect to users. Studies from 24 rural communities reveal how libraries’ hotspot-lending programs gave families access to the broader information environment and helped students access educational material.

This resource provides four steps to increase E-Rate connectivity and competition. Empowering schools and libraries to take advantage of competition helps drive down the cost of connectivity and the E-Rate program provides the discounts to make broadband internet access more affordable.

This Broadband Plan, published in 2018, outlines the history and current state of Arizona’s broadband programs and sets goals and policy recommendations for the future of its broadband development. The plan also examines case studies of initiatives taken by other states.