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Ensuring Internet Access During A Pandemic: Piloting A Wifi Hotspot Lending Program, Pj Grier, Barbara Wood, Erica Rosalle, Jackie Werner, Matt Mcnelis

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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 many students experienced sudden lifestyle adjustments. These adjustments included not having reliable access to an internet source to complete their coursework. In an effort to soften the pandemic’s blow the library secured a grant to purchase, manage, and circulate mobile wifi hotspots to students in need. For the pilot eleven hotspots were purchased for one campus, and due to the success of the pilot now all three campuses of PCOM are loaning out a total of twenty-eight hotspots.