Opportunity Online

Aurora, CO, July 27, 2009 — BCR is partnering with the North Dakota State Library and the Hawaii State Public Library System to administer the third and final round of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Opportunity Online Hardware Grants program. The grant program will help eligible public libraries in these states upgrade and add public computer workstations for patrons in communities with high concentrations of poverty and where a library’s public computers are at risk of becoming outdated with limited capacity for users.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Brandie Baumann, Communications Coordinator
bcrpress@bcr.org; 303.751.6277, ext 110

BCR, MEMBER STATE LIBRARIES PARTNER TO ADMINISTER BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION GRANTS