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Public Library Internet Access in Wisconsin is Integral to Job Seeking and Improving Employment Opportunities

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011


by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, Catherine Arnott Smith
School of Library and Information Studies

High speed access to the Internet is now an integral part of modern American life, yet proposed elimination of WiscNet, and through WiscNet Wisconsin public libraries’ low cost internet access, would  hurt the most vulnerable citizens in our state: the unemployed, the underemployed and those struggling to make ends meet and better their situation in tough economic times. (more…)