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The article discusses how the New York Public Library (NYPL) in New York City and the Chicago Public Library (CPL) in Chicago, Illinois have implemented wireless Internet hot spot lending programs. Topics include how the libraries received funding from the Knight Foundation, how this will serve low-income households and will assist in both child and adult education, and includes comments from Tony Marx, NYPL executive and Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago.

Reports that the Nassau County Library System, in New York City, offered its patrons free Internet access from home during a brief period in 1998. Costs involved; Features of the Internet access site.

The article reports on the expected launch of a pilot program aimed at providing free Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) hotspots to public school families in three library systems in New York City. The Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library and Queens Library have partnered with Google and Sprint for the program. Five thousand hotspots will be available for qualified applicants.

Reports on the launch of free Wi-Fi Internet access at branch locations in New York City by the New York Public Library. Benefit of the initiative to patrons with their own wireless-equipped laptops; Financier of the Wi-Fi service.

Presents news briefs related to libraries. Rejection by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Library board's finance committee of a plan to close four branches; Bill that the Washington State Senate passed that would require filters on all public library Internet terminals; donation by Brooklyn, New York native S. Stevan Dweck of $1.5 million to the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) Foundation's Plaza and Auditorium Project at BPL's Central Library; Other news.

This article offers information on the central Bronx branch of the New York Public Library. The $50-million, five-story is three times the size of the Fordham Library Center that had served the borough for 82 years. Designed by Dattner Architects, the branch offers 127 desktop computers for public use and houses 200,000 books, periodicals, and multimedia items for the community's ethnically diverse users.

Reports that in 1999 the New York Public Library (NYPL) received $6.5 million in discounts on $8.3 million in telecommunications, Internet and equipment expenses through a federal education rate (e-rate) program. How the e-rate program was created as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; How the discounts will provide the library the opportunity to improve its computer networks and Internet access; Contact information for the NYPL.