Before there was high-speed internet in the Santo Domingo Pueblo, a tribal community about 40 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, leaders would pass around a Verizon hotspot to help run their tribal ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL) to operate until the end of the national ...

The modern internet didn’t happen by accident. It took decades of work to turn what once was an obscure network used by a small number of academics into a global phenomenon reaching about half the ...

We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow suit and vanish from the earth? It doesn’t seem like it, at ...

With an internet hotspot device, users are free to move about, untethered to the library or stationery internet provider. They may, for example, take time to sight-seeing the world's largest easel in ...

The Internet Archive has only been usable to a limited extent since last week because the free Internet library came under massive attack from millions of simultaneous accesses. The perpetrators of ...

A new library on the Web offers children—and their parents and teachers—a place to read children’s books from around the globe. The International Children’s Digital Library, launched last week at ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...