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.

The Social Security Administration has asked libraries throughout the country to partner with them in sharing information with the public about initiatives involving retirement, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package, and Medicare. They are asking libraries to inform their patrons of the following initiatives: