Libraries struggle to provide equal access to digital resources

Ensuring that all Canadians benefit from the proliferation of digital resources is key to creating equality of opportunity. Yet restrictions on public library use of digital publications drive unequal access to digitized information and ideas.

Governments need to be aware of the digital divide that multinational publishers are creating by restricting public library access to digital publications, writes Pilar Martinez, chair of the Canadian Urban Libraries Council.Photograph by Susan Yin courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY Pilar Martinez

May 10, 2019

Despite the digitization of work and socializing in the 21st century, public libraries continue to be essential to communities for gathering, learning, working, and entertainment. In 2017, C...

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