Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Tuesday, March 09, 2004Small Town, Big Library
The Recorder of February 13, 2004, has an editorial on the new-fangled 802.11g hotspot at the Highland County Public Library.
Highland County, arguably the last place people would expect to find choices, has stayed remarkably up-to-date. It's only been in the last few years that Highland has had local Internet access at all, beginning with service provided by CFW Communications. ... But so far nothing has topped — or stopped — the determined efforts of the Highland County Public Library to be ahead of the pack. Recently, the library began offering wireless service within its walls. This "Wi-Fi" stuff may be nothing but fancy computer service to those who haven't experienced it, but there are plenty who describe it as the wave of the future.
I know at least one librarian who does.
Highland is the least populated county East of the Mississippi, with 2,518 residents, and yet the library had 25,527 items in circulation last year.
10:36:31 PM # Google It!
Martin Schwimmer points to Malcolm Gladwell's latest, on the history of malls, in the The New Yorker. This looks like the sort of thing that, after I read it, I'll have some sort of intelligent comment like, "duh!"
