DEBORAH JACOBS

摘要

U.S. libraries gave the world a top talent when Deborah Jacobs left her transformational role as City Librarian of Seattle in 2008 to head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries program, the international sibling to the U.S. Libraries program. The initiative fosters national-scale projects with grantees in transitioning countries that have public library systems. The goal is to enable public access to information and communications technology-access that is not only sustainable but also, according to the foundation, "useful and used in ways that improve people's lives and spread the benefits."