Comments on: Cites & Insights 8:2 available http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/cites-insights-82-available/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dorothea Salo http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/cites-insights-82-available/comment-page-1/#comment-31418 Dorothea Salo Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:54:08 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=692#comment-31418 A lot of our campus libraries do loaner laptops (in cooperation with campus IT). A small, rugged, cheap machine would be a real boon.

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/cites-insights-82-available/comment-page-1/#comment-31414 walt Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:46:16 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=692#comment-31414 Dorothea, that makes sense to me–for libraries that do loan out notebooks. Outside my experience, which is of course limited.

My wife’s improving little by little (and I’m still getting over a cold).

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://walt.lishost.org/2008/01/cites-insights-82-available/comment-page-1/#comment-31412 Dorothea Salo Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:12 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=692#comment-31412 Quibble re: ultralight PCs… If these get cheap enough (a significant “if,” as miniaturization requires serious engineering), they’d be obvious loaner machines for libraries with loaner programs — mostly academic libraries as far as I know.

Hope your wife’s feeling better!

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