LIBRARIES in Buckinghamshire are getting a £827,000 cash boost to buy 273 more computers.
The money comes from National Lottery money in the New Opportunities Fund and Buckinghamshire County Council is one of four councils in the country receiving the latest grants.
The Government set up the fund to use lottery cash to help education, health and environmental projects.
Called The People's Network, the idea is to link every public library in the UK to the internet so that people can use the computers in the same way they might if they had them at home.
Buckinghamshire will be able to buy a further 273 computers to go in its 30 libraries.
Margaret Dewar, the cabinet member for community services, is touring all the libraries in the county to decide where the new computers will go.
"Where there are computers they are extremely popular," she said.
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