E-Rate Passes $1 Million Mark

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The education rate (e-rate) federal program, which helps fund Internet and telephone service for libraries and schools, has passed the $1 million mark in Kentucky in 2012, making it the most successful year in e-rate history for the state. The $1,033,398 being allotted to Kentucky’s public libraries this year will help ensure libraries are connected to worldwide information networks, regardless of their location. E-rate was enacted by Congress under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with the program beginning in 1998. Kentucky public libraries have received $7,146,928 in e-rate funding since that time.