The Shifted Librarian:Wireless Keeps on Going and Going and Going….

But a growing number of hotels and restaurants have found that it pays to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access. This perk attracts customers and provides a real bottom-line payback for a relatively small capital investment, according to free-Wi-Fi pioneers.

We’re going to have a real problem if patrons can get wireless access everywhere but the local library. I finally just outright said it at the ILA conference – the question is no longer “will libraries offer WiFi;” that is no longer up for debate. The question now is when, and that’s a decision to be made by each library in its own due course. Some will go down this road next year, while others will tread more slowly and take 2-3 years to get there. But get there they will, and it’s a Martha Stewart “Good Thing.”