They may be short on books, under-staffed, and generally depressing, but the District’s public libraries are now all Wi-Fi hotspots.

In late May the Georgetown branch announced it was the first public library in the city to offer free Wi-Fi, and now the remaining 20 branches and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library will similarly do so. The District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the D.C. Public Library’s Information and Telecommunications Office worked jointly on the project, rolling it out prior to the September 30 deadline.

Check one thing off the list. Now they just have to settle on where the library system’s new central building will be, and find ways to actually make public libraries the place you’d want to go to exploit the free Wi-Fi. Baby steps.

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