Enoch Pratt Free Library hopes to use ARPA funds to help close the digital divide
“The report also shows that access to the internet falls along racial and socioeconomic lines.
It found that 40% of Maryland residents, or 206,000 households, without high-speed internet are African American.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library’s proposal labels the library as “the community anchor for digital equity.”
The library has 2,193,109 Wi-Fi sessions and 1,031,070 public computer sessions annually. It also has 72,064 annual computer lab users.”