Lamont already offers 24 datajacks for personal laptop users. Collins said
that the idea of wireless services has had a popular reaction.
"We hope that Lamont's wireless installation creates a sense of
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connectedness and immediacy that supports study at Harvard," said Heather Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries. "It follows the introduction of loaner laptops...a service that has proved enormously popular and is likely to grow, both in Lamont and Hilles."
The library's only concern, Collins said, is the risk associated with battery exhaustion, which she said has weighed heavily on the minds of administrators since Lamont began loaning laptops.
--Staff writer Justin D. Gest can be reached at gest@fas.harvard.edu.