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November 27, 2003
The Internet in libraries
The Entidad Pública Empresarial Red.es, in the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología trough the Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información, has put the web site about the programme Internet in libraries online.
The Internet in libraries is oriented to all the Spanish public libraries, no matter if they are national, regional or municipal, and it tries to give a wide-band connection to these institutions and make them centres of public access to the Internet. The programme will invest about 38 million euros in the more than 4.000 public libraries in Spain to do, among other, the following initiatives: Wide-band connections, wire-less local networks, more than 12.000 new equipments with public conection to the Internet, free applications and library coordination improvement.
This entity coordinates another series of programmes related to data transmission, culture and education. We can get information about all of them in the web site Red.es.
Permanent link: P.URL | Category: Internet | Published: November 27, 2003
