The American Library Association met with FCC Chairman...

The American Library Association met with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and other agency staff May 5, to propose the FCC invest a “significant portion” of funding to focus on improving current process in the E-rate program, and incentivizing applicants to take advantage of capacity-building measures already in place, said an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 13-184 (http://bit.ly/1iJkgvJ). Libraries in many communities are the only on-ramp to the Internet for those without such access, ALA said.