A fifty-year library career and co-founder of AZBSN. She administers the E-rate program that has brought roughly $1.83 billion to Arizona schools and libraries since 1998 — and helped turn a Tuba City library into a liver-scan telehealth clinic.
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S2·E1 — Why Libraries Matter
So far, as far as Arizona is concerned, we have received about $1.83 billion from 1998. We receive about an average of about $70 million each year for our schools and libraries.
E-rate Administrator, Arizona State Library
Libraries are trusted places. So you could go to a library, for example, and be sure to get information that is trustworthy, apolitical, that is community-sensitive, community-friendly places.
E-rate Administrator, Arizona State Library
I think I can sum it up in three words: broadband for all.
E-rate Administrator, Arizona State Library