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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



Rachel Smith,  Ph.D.
Public Programs Director
Arizona Science Center

602-716-2042


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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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www.nyscience.org

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