{"id":2545,"date":"2007-12-04T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:15:48","slug":"more-toronto-library-branches-go-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/04\/more-toronto-library-branches-go-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"More Toronto library branches go wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world’s busiest public library system is (yet again) even better, part of a pattern at the city department it’s most difficult to find anything to complain about. If you have the new issue of Spacing, you can read Ryan Bigge’s<\/a> article on how the Toronto Reference Library has evolved (for the better) over the thirty years<\/a> it has been open, and earlier this year we reported<\/a> the TRL was offering free wifi. As of last week the TPL has expanded that service to 19 branches around Toronto.<\/p>\n

These new wifi sites were funded by a grant from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to expand the program into some of Toronto’s designated high need areas, and is a small example of an occasion when federal funding is helping the city. All the new wifi sites can be found here<\/a> (including a google map of the locations). It’s good, and important, to see open and free wifi sites extending outside of Toronto’s core where there is less chance to catch an open network or find a wired café. If all 99 branches eventually go wireless, the TPL may contribute far more to a crucial piece of this city’s infrastructure than does Toronto Hydro’s One-Zone<\/a> downtown pay-per-use system.<\/p>\n

As I argued here once before<\/a>, wifi should be viewed as an important piece of civic infrastructure and be provided free to use in the same way roads and storm sewers are as it can contribute as much to Toronto’s economy and well being as those traditional pieces of infrastructure do.<\/p>\n

Photo by striatic<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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