Crowell Public Library Gets New Wifi

SAN MARINO, Calif. - July 23, 2013 - PRLog -- According to a 2011 Harris Poll created for the American Library Association,
public computer and wifi use increased at more than 70 percent of U.S. libraries
than the previous year.*  When libraries can’t afford to upgrade  their computers
or increase their numbers, wifi access becomes even more critical.  When the new
Crowell Library opened in January 2008, it had a whopping 16 public access
computers, up from the meager six if offered at the old library, but the wifi remained
the same, six year-old Blue Socket technology that was pathetically slow and
constantly going down, much to the dismay of the staff and patrons.

A city-wide service satisfaction survey conducted earlier this year complained about the library’s unreliable wireless service. But before the survey was even published, a generous donation fromthe Hal Suetsugu Family, the Montelongo Family, Robert and Grace Karkafi, Dr. Albert Cho and Dr. Della Fong, Raymond Woo and Kristina Fu Woo, solved the problem with new Zone Director wifi.  As a result, Crowell Library has increased patron accessibility a whopping 245%.  With the old wifi, the library averaged 47 logins per day and now the average is 115.