Coyle explained the privacy risks that internet users must deal with. She also discussed cookies and the way they burrow into your private life. See Coyle's brief study on how her browser uses cookies . Hye Ok Park, California State University, Fresno Cal State Fresno is experimenting with a wireless LAN for their libraries. Students can check out handheld PCs from the circulation desk for two hours at a time and use them anywhere in the library, without physically being connected to the network.
Students have access to the internet and library databases, as well as to office software.
Any files saved are retrieved from a central server and saved to a disk. A lot of this presentation went over my head, I must admit, but I did find out some interesting things.