Taming the Wireless Frontier: PDAs, Tablets, and Laptops at Home on the Range.

Williams, Joe

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ERIC Number: EJ671735

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2003

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Taming the Wireless Frontier: PDAs, Tablets, and Laptops at Home on the Range.

Williams, Joe

Computers in Libraries, v23 n3 p10-12,62-64 Mar 2003

Explains how Texas A&M University libraries developed a wireless network, including problems encountered, and describes three wireless services currently being delivered using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), tablet PCs, and wireless laptop computers. Topics include costs versus value; data security and access; wireless access points; standards; local area networks; and circulating equipment. (LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Costs, Higher Education, Library Circulation, Library Services, Local Area Networks, Problems, Standards, Telecommunications, Value Judgment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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