https://www.cnet.com/news/in-a-world-of-google-amazon-libraries-rethink-their-role/

"Holy moly," Marx, the president and CEO of the New York Public Library, remembers thinking. "'In the information capital of the world, this kid can't do the math homework we want him to do to succeed.'"

Since then, the NYPL has rolled out a host of services aimed at closing the digital divide, which is exactly what it sounds like: the gap between those who can easily get online and those who can't. The famous library -- who hasn't seen Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions who guard its main entrance, in the movies? -- provides computers and laptops at its locations, and lends out mobile hotspots for months at a time. And like at Starbucks, the Wi-Fi is free.