Member of Congress Talks About “How Public Libraries Can Boost American Innovation”

Below, a passage from an article that includes a quote by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, (D-NM) at a Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event held in DC earlier today.
From NextGov:

Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries, potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such as 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the nearby community. Because public libraries already exist across America, “including the rural parts, where we still don’t have bandwidth capacity,” they could become hubs for technological development outside Silicon Valley, he said

Read the Complete Article

Filed under: Libraries, News, Public Libraries