[Libs-Or] INFORMATION Fwd: [District Dispatch] Director of the Sacramento Public Library System to testify in House broadband hearing

[Diedre Conkling]

FYI

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From: <jterry at alawash.org>
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:51 AM
Subject: [District Dispatch] Director of the Sacramento Public Library
System to testify in House broadband hearing
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District Dispatch has posted a new item, "Director of the Sacramento Public
Library System to testify in House broadband hearing"

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rivkah Sass, Director of the Sacramento Public Library
System, will testify before the United States House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Communications,
Technology
and the Internet at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 13, in 2123 Rayburn House
Office
Building.

The hearing, titled “The National Broadband Plan: Promoting Broadband
Adoption,” is the fourth in a series of hearings addressing issues raised in
the National Broadband Plan. It will examine recommendations in the National
Broadband Plan for increasing broadband adoption, including ways to ensure
that
all Americans are able to subscribe to broadband and ways to educate
individuals about broadband's benefits. Ms. Sass’s testimony will highlight
the critical role of libraries as anchor institutions in helping drive
broadband adoptions in communities.

If provided by the committee, a live webcast of the hearing will be
available
at http://energycommerce.house.gov.

You may view the latest post at
http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4856

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Best regards,
Jacob Roberts
jroberts at alawash.org



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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR  97365
Work phone & fax:  541-265-3066
Work email:  diedre at beachbooks.org
Home email:  diedre08 at gmail.com
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