The Idaho Commission for Libraries—along with nearly 150 Idaho state leaders, grant partners, and public library directors from many of the smallest and most rural libraries in the state—is launching the “online @ your library” broadband project on November 1 and 2 at a launch workshop in Boise sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Read to Me First Book targets children ages birth to seven who are unlikely to have many books in their homes or have a library card. The program provides a book a month for nine months for each participating child, and First Book families can participate in a free early literacy workshop.