Taming the Wireless Frontier: PDAs, Tablets, and Laptops at Home on the Range
This Texas-based education services librarian likens designing wireless programs to settling a new frontier.
Once his associates got the lay of the land and made some important decisions about responsibility and security, they started to make downright good use of all the new-fangled technology. Now they're loaning laptops and PDAs, and they have reference librarians roving the range, wire-free.
by Joe Williams

Could the Flexibility of Wireless Solve a Problem for You?
Does being tethered to a traditional, wired network have you all bent out of shape? Wireless can come in handy for specific situations—such as connecting mobile computers or those in temporary locations to existing networks, as these authors did. They describe three projects where wires would have been too restrictive for their needs, and explain how the flexibility of wireless came to the rescue.
by Carol McGeehon and Derek Merrifield

Our Plan for a Wireless Loan Service
If you've been wondering how forward-looking colleagues have been taking their wireless services from initial idea to actual access, this feature will help. See how this government library, whose building had been fraught with wiring challenges, devised a plan to go wireless in order to better serve its savvy scientists.
by Nancy Allmang

10 Myths About PDAs—Debunked!
Sure there's a buzz around PDAs, and all the techies are talking about them. But that doesn't have anything to do with libraries, right? Wrong! Find out how assumptions such as "It's too expensive to support them" and "They're just a fad" are not only untrue, but might even cause your library to fall behind users' expectations—and sooner than you think!
by Nancy R. John and Dennis C. Tucker

The View from the Top Left Corner
PDA Avoidance: They'll Get You Eventually!
by Michael Schuyler

Building Digital Libraries
Casting a Wider Net with Roving Reference
by Terence K. Huwe

Techman's TechPage
Whether to Wireless
by D. Scott Brandt

Online Treasures
Does Wireless Really Mean No More Wires?
by Janet L. Balas

The Systems Librarian
Benchmarking Technology: A Theory of Penultimacy
by Marshall Breeding

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by Kathy Dempsey

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