We are overwhelmed with inadequate information and woefully uninformed. We're dying of thirst in a lakeful of fresh water in the midst of a drought. However, it is also the function of the General Libraries to allow access to Internet for students, which is achieved on a public facility with more than 200 computers. More are planned for next year. Phone access is also provided.
Access includes color and graphics as well as text.
We see electronic media as the developing front of the library that will eventually dominate all other media. Rural and outlying areas have access via phone or satellite, and this population will assuredly grow rapidly. All campuses of the UT System will have direct high speed links from El Paso to Port Aransas, to Dallas, to Tyler, and more, probably before the end of this decade. This sounds like a lot, but the tuition cost is near the bottom of the stack compared to the remaining 49 states. Most of the public school teachers have access to the resource and many are beginning to take advantage of it for classroom activities.