The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92161   Message #1759062
Posted By: Rapparee
13-Jun-06 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: If it was up to you...
Subject: RE: BS: If it was up to you...
Ah, Clinton -- we have wireless installed here (as many libraries do) and are investigating (by trying one out) the Nokia 770 as a way to free the staff from having to run back to the PCs just to check the catalog. When our automation system moves to a web-based configuration later this year we'll also us it to check out materials.

Moreover, we are a node for the downtown-supplied public wireless net and could access the downtown merchants wireless net if we had a reason to do so.

We have T-1 line coming in, a 3 MB microwave link on the roof, eleven servers, and provide links to more than thirty individual databases. Children's books, and soon adult and spoken books, are available from our website.

Are you sure you've been in a public library in, say, the last ten years??