Libraries few followers PC, in spite of the request in the USA 2007-09-15
With the boom of the video on line, gates employment and other sites of school assistances, Internet is from now on a more organized and complete mine of information before. But according to American Library Association, the majority of the libraries states-union's do not plan to invest in computers.
For the majority, their buildings do not enable them to accommodate some more just as the invoice of electricity can be a barrier to the purchase. Others prefer to concentrate on the purchase of books, the respect of the schedules of opening and the encouragement of the young people to reading books.
According to the report/ratio, the average number of computers per library remained unchanged since 2002, so that today only 1 out of 5 regard to have enough computers to answer at the request of the users. But at the time of the peaks of frequentation, some do not hesitate to announce that one hour ago or an hour and half of waiting before seeing a station releasing itself.
In order to reduce the queues, more and more of libraries choose a network without wire, which unhooks a little the traffic, certain users benefiting from the network to reach it with their own computer. 17% of the establishments thus envisage to install of them one in the year which comes.
Remain the problem of the flow since with an access by Wi-Fi divided between tens even of the hundreds of Net surfers, there remains difficult to reach quickly gates like YouTube or Google Video, bringing a slowness of navigation similar to that known i
