Edge: Where People Connect, Communities Achieve

Libraries have long been community anchors that provide information and opportunity for all people. Research shows that each year, millions of people in America use the high-quality public access to computer and Internet services at public libraries to improve their lives - to continue their education, find jobs, improve their career skills, access e-government services, research health information and much more.

Together with the library field, the Edge Initiative - an effort driven by a coalition of leading library and government organizations - is developing benchmarks that will help libraries evaluate and continually improve their public technology services for communities.
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The lives of library users continue to change, and libraries must continually evolve to meet the digital needs of their communities.

A national coalition of 13 organizations is working with the library field to create the first-ever set of national benchmarks that define quality public access technology services in libraries. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the coalition includes:

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