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I love that!  A shoe for a computer.  That's really brilliant, the kid
can't run off.  I could imagine some...environmental...problems.  Did
anyone object?  Anyway, that is one of the ideas we are toying with,
lending out laptops for use within a specific space.  Do you have a
contact at this library?

Eric Siegel
Director of Planning
   & Program Development
Connections Project Director
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
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www.nyscience.org

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> Subject: Re: Wireless Museum
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> Please post replies to the list - I'd be interested in
> hearing what people are doing/have planned too.
>
> As a side note (semi-related issue) the public library within
> the Indianapolis Childrens' museum lends out laptops for use
> in the library by its youth patrons.  The kids have to
> surrender a shoe for a computer and get their shoe back when
> they return the machine.  This lending/accountability system
> was working really well when I learned about it (a year or so
> ago). I'm not sure if they're still using it.
>
> Rachel
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> Rachel Smith,  Ph.D.
> Public Programs Director
> Arizona Science Center
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> 602-716-2042
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Siegel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 1:27 PM
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> Subject: Wireless Museum
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> Hello, all:
>
> Do any of you have a wireless (802.11x) infrastructure in
> your museum? If so, do you have it throughout the museum, or
> in specific areas?  If not, do you know any museums that do?
> By next year, we will have 802.11 coverage in all of our
> exhibition galleries, so I am curious about any programming
> that people have done with untethered computers.  The access
> points are scalable through software, so we can keep up with
> evolving standards.  I gather people are streaming video over
> 802.11x technology, but I haven't seen it done.
>
> Anyway, I would like to hear about current, planned, or
> imagined possibilities...
>
> Eric Siegel
> Director of Planning
>    & Program Development
> Connections Project Director
> New York Hall of Science
> 47-01 111th Street
> Queens, NY 11368
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