BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Springfield Springfield. 1 City (1990 pop. 105,227), state capital and seat of Sangamon co., central Ill., on the Sangamon River; settled 1818, inc. as a city 1840. library adds wireless Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the service SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield Public Library is getting with the times, technologically speaking. The library now provides access for wireless Internet devices. Patrons don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. need to have a library card to use the "WiFi" service at the facility, located inside City Hall at 225 Fifth St. Also, the library has upgraded its electronic card catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. . Patrons can now reserve and renew materials online, read book summaries, view best-seller lists and more - all from the comfort of their own homes. The library's Web site is www.ci.springfield.or.us/library. Send announcements to: Briefly News at The Register-Guard, P.O. Box 10188, Eugene, OR 97440, fax 683-7631 or e-mail rgnews@guardnet.com. |
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