A few years ago, just about anyone could turn up at a college library, sit down at a bank of public-access computers, and cruise the Internet with no password, little trouble, and only the slimmest ...

Meet your New Year’s resolution of increasing your computer skills by taking the South Lake Tahoe Branch Library’s free series of computer classes. They are Introduction to Computers, Introduction to ...

Tom Kohler uses the Duluth Public Library's computers every week to look for work. Without Internet access at home, the unemployed 25-year-old Duluth man relies on the free service at the library to ...

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