Computers are for Every Student

The computer is now the legitimate primary source of library information. Basic word processing and internet skills can be learned by the students.
Every student needs computer access to the internet and software programs that are professionally designed and ethically oversighted for appropriate content. This access should be adjusted for age and learning level.
The new Nursery School or PreKindergarten student has a need for information that is professionally generated. This applies to students who are actively enrolled in even one course through college, graduate school, doctoral and post doctoral programs as well.
Google is an adequate source of information for the general user or for fun. However, for educational purposes professionally generated and oversighted information and educational programs are needed.
Professionally designed software programs and internet connections that are adjusted for the respective student's age, capacity, and academic needs, to be determined by professionally trained School Psychologists, can be provided. These software and internet connections can be preprogramed to block and search out the sources of inappropriate material. When such inappropriate material is identified its source can be located via computers the Police, FBI, and CIA are propared to track down and the perpretrators can be dealth with appropriately via legal channels.
We know that many parents can not afford a computer for their child and the problem grows with each additional child. Therefore, all children whose parents have a household income below economically established levels need to given a new, updated, laptop computer, for portability between home-school-library-study buddies-etc, every two to three years. The software and website connections and their material must be similarly updated as well. The sources for this funding can be found via a combination of government and private agencies.
Of course, these computers and the accompanying software are critical in twentyfirst century education. Libraries will always be needed. However, no library is likely to be large enough to house all of the material the contemporary student requires.