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Yolo County : County Press Releases : Rural Libraries to Receive 1 GB of 
Broadband Service

http://www.yolocounty.org/Home/Components/News/News/3106/


  Rural Libraries to Receive 1 GB of Broadband Service

(Woodland, CA) – Yolo County’s library branches in Esparto, Yolo and 
Knights Landing will receive an additional gigabyte of broadband service 
by the end of 2015.

Through Governor Brown and the legislature’s “Lighting Up Libraries” 
initiative, as well as the State Library’s partnership with the 
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), 
broadband services are being deployed to public libraries across the 
state. On behalf of Yolo County, CENIC negotiated with Internet service 
providers to bring improved, lower cost broadband services to rural 
libraries within Yolo County at a significantly reduced rate for the 
next five years. As a result, one GB of high speed broadband service 
will be available at Yolo County library branches in Esparto, Yolo and 
Knights Landing, as well as enhanced bandwidth at the Yolo County 
Library’s central services facility in Woodland.

This opportunity for high speed broadband service is part of the Yolo 
Broadband Strategic Plan, which plays a vital role in keeping 
communities competitive locally and globally. The strategic plan’s 
objective is to facilitate affordable access to broadband services while 
critically supporting the long-term connectivity needs of Yolo County’s 
residents, businesses and anchor institutions, such as libraries. 
Enhanced broadband will provide faster and more varied Internet 
services, including video conferencing, video streaming and delivery of 
digital content to e-readers.

“Bringing broadband Internet service is essential to our economic 
stability,” says Yolo County Librarian Patty Wong. “Broadband will help 
connect our communities to one another and to the rest of the electronic 
world.”

The Esparto Regional Library is also receiving new equipment to enable 
the one GB installation thanks to, in part, a $30,000 grant from 
Southern California Library Cooperative. The enhanced broadband and this 
equipment will provide opportunities for the Esparto Regional Library 
and community to embark on projects such as improving free access for 
patrons, increasing the number of computer stations with the support of 
the Friends of the Esparto Regional Library, offering online education 
and computer skills training and providing applications to government 
and health care resources.

The Yolo County Library continues to support the community and provide 
access to information and services. These changes are possible through 
the support and partnerships with the community, the Yolo County Library 
branches and the Friends of the Library. For more information about the 
Yolo County Library, visit: www.yolocountylibrary.org 
<http://www.yolocountylibrary.org> or connect with the library on 
Facebook at: www.facebook.com/yolocountylibrary.org 
<http://www.facebook.com/yolocountylibrary.org>.






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