  We report on the Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the globular
cluster NGC 288. We detect four X-ray sources within the core radius and seven
additional sources within the half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of
Lx=7e30 erg/s (assuming cluster membership) in the 0.3-7 keV band. We also
observed the cluster with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for
Surveys and identify optical counterparts to seven X-ray sources out of the
nine sources within the HST field-of-view. Based on the X-ray and optical
properties, we find 2-5 candidates of cataclysmic variables (CVs) or
chromospherically active binaries, and 2-5 background galaxies inside the
half-mass radius. Since the core density of NGC 288 is very low, the faint
X-ray sources of NGC 288 found in the Chandra and HST observations is higher
than the prediction on the basis of the collision frequency. We suggest that
the CVs and chromospherically active binaries are primordial in origin, in
agreement with theoretical expectation.
