{"id":1450,"date":"2007-01-11T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T22:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2007-01-11T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T02:25:23","slug":"librarians-do-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/01\/11\/librarians-do-it-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians do it better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tpl.toronto.on.ca\/images\/pro_trl_exhibits_2002_trl1977.jpg\" \/>While certain civic bureaucracies continue to confound and anger many Torontonians, the Toronto Public Library seems to be doing everything right. They&#8217;ve hosted rock bands, extended their hours (perhaps soon until midnight), continued their general bookishness and today we discover the Toronto Reference Library finally has Wifi. While this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_11.24.05\/city\/stroll.php\">one of Toronto&#8217;s most wonderful places<\/a>, the lack of  wireless  internet has been the only drawback, as laptops get lonely when they can&#8217;t connect to anything, and sometimes books just aren&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>There are little signs around the library directing people to the 1st and 2nd floor to connect, but I&#8217;m on the 4th floor now and my Powerbook is picking up a usable signal. This place, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/wirelesstoronto.ca\">Wireless Toronto<\/a> locations in Dundas Square and Dufferine Grove park, provide Toronto with some great wired public spaces. Cafe&#8217;s and bars with free wifi are good and should be encouraged and patronized (tell them that&#8217;s why you buy stuff from them) but sometimes you don&#8217;t want to buy something to rent out the seat. Best part of the TRL wifi is all you do is hook up, check a box that says you agree to terms and conditions, and that&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re on. None of the overly paranoid and secure network policies you might expect from a bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only we could get the TPL folks to run the TTC too.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture of brand-new Reference Library atrium from 1977 when only Al Gore knew about the internet.) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While certain civic bureaucracies continue to confound and anger many Torontonians, the Toronto Public Library seems to be doing everything right. They&#8217;ve hosted rock bands, extended their hours (perhaps soon until midnight), continued their general bookishness and today we discover the Toronto Reference Library finally has Wifi. 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