umm? New "Remote Photocopy card"..money added with wireless technology. lol!

Library Client- "I need to pay my fine"
Library Staff - "Its $1.00, thank you"
Library Client- "I only have a $2.00 coin, can you put the other $1.00 on my photocopy card?
Library Staff- "Yes no problem, can I have the card to add the money?"
Library Client- "Oh, I haven't got it with me, I thought you could add the money anyway."
Library Staff- "no sorry we need the card to add money to it"
Library Client- "never mind then....."

We don't have the technology, yet...to add money to a card we don't physically have.
Our photocopy cards are not attached to any type of account, or wireless system, they stand alone. Had she thought about it she probably would have realised this. Or maybe not.....[smile]

This lead me to thinking about the wireless technology, and how much our students are now using it in the Library. (They had some trouble getting connected if they had Vista, but one of our marvellous IT people has worked it out now!)
We had a visit from an IT guy from the Big City campus, and after I had dropped him at the airport, I sent him an email about some information. He answered it promptly as there was free wireless at the airport! and he was waiting for the plane to board.

We have had some teething problems, but the system is working fine. I had a conversation with one of the students who lives in the student accomodation next to the Library, he said if you sit on the lawn nearest the library wall, you can connect to the system, he does this if the library is closed. (Students, love 'em, I am sure if it wasn't for them thinking ways around obstacles, we wouldn't have half the new ideas we have.)

Feral TB-) (coming to you via our wireless network at home...keeping up..just!)

Technology...can't live with it, can't shoot it

Day 2, (Librarianless)
8:30am
2 Staff on and busy with loads of students working solidly, must be an assignment due.
Setting up the Wireless laptop for an induction at 1.10
Should have been easy enough, was shown last Thursday how to do it, but...

Setting up in Seminar room 1.....not near desk, keep running back to check desk....
Guessing my way through instructions I only half remember, seemed to be easier on Thursday (it seems a lot of this is intuitive)...
should have written it down.

Setting up the Wireless laptop (this is slow to log on....)
Sent request for help to IT
IT help came....
Setting up the Wireless laptop (still slow...)
Got in Yea!

logged off and tried it in another ferals log on....
No dice
Setting up the Wireless laptop (yep, slow again....)
Sent request for help to IT
Got help
Still can't log in with other Ferals details,
it won't establish her identity!!!
(She says she is real and who was that darn computer to think it could have any bearing on her authenticity!)

12:45 Set up the wireless laptop with my logon and all running smoothly...
12:55 connection dropped out....%$#@*&%%$
1:00 Setting up the wireless laptop...
1:10 All running smoothly
1:20 Class comes in and other Feral takes over....PHEW!
Still can't log in under her details!
Had enough FeralTB-)