Boston Public Library Extending WiFi Access

Over the past year, the Boston Public Library has rolled out high-speed WiFi wireless Internet access for patrons at its landmark Copley Square facility and 27 branches. Within a few weeks, patrons won't even have to go inside the downtown branch to use the service. BPL officials are preparing to activate new WiFi transmitters that will bring coverage out to the Dartmouth Street pavilion on the Trinity Church side of the library. Owners of WiFi-enabled laptop computers who have a Boston library card and Net access code will be able to surf the Web and BPL catalogs and databases as easily outside as they can now in the main reading and research rooms.

(Boston Globe, November 3, 2003)

Posted by Tom on November 11, 2003