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Microsoft Statewide Purchasing Agreement Meeting
Time/Date: January 18, 2000 – 10:00 AM
Location: NOLA Office
Cost: Free

NOLA and the other regional library systems across the state are currently involved in negotiations with Microsoft to provide significant discounts to member libraries on the purchase of Microsoft software and other materials. An initial data collection project has been completed and we are ready to move forward with the development of this program.  The next steps in this process are to provide libraries with detailed information about the program, discuss library and home use licensing options/requirements, and assist in the development a library sales forecast.   If you are planning to participate in this program or would like to learn more please join us for this informational meeting.

Please note: due to licensing restrictions enforced by Microsoft this program is currently available to public, private school, and some special library members, many public school and academic libraries are already eligible for similar Microsoft discounts through existing OECN or campus agreements.

Register for this meeting

Dr. Laura "Warrior" Persuades Ohio Trustees to Install Filters
Trustees decided December 14 to install filters on four computers in the children’s room of Upper Arlington (Ohio) Public Library, as a result of a complaint to the city council over open access. Charles K. Reed, a regular listener of Laura Schlessinger’s syndicated radio show, went to the library last September and found, he said, "two teenage boys perusing porn on the Internet," according to an announcement on Dr. Laura’s Web site.

Source: American Libraries Online

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Brad Stephens - Email
NOLA Regional Library System

Everyone makes mistakes, even Microsoft
Someone at Microsoft forgot to pay an important bill over the holidays and as a result many users of Microsoft's free web based email service, Hotmail, were denied access from December 24th until sometime on December 25th when a good samaritian paid the bill for Microsoft. The bill which wasn't paid was the $35 registration fee due to Network Solutions for the registration of the domain name passport.com which is used to provide functionality to the Hotmail service.

Want to know more? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/19991227/tc/19991227025.html

Online sales are tax free, right?
While it looks like consumers are safe from Federal taxes on the Internet (for now) the issue of state taxes has been raised by at least two states - North Carolina and Michigan.  Both states have added lines to income tax forms asking residents to declare and pay a 6% sales tax on their out of state purchases, including those purchases made via the Internet.  Many states acknowledge the difficulty in collecting a sales tax on Internet purchases, however; there is a growing realization that as Internet spending continues to increase the funds collected from traditional state sales taxes will be reduced.

Read more - http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd2.htm

Dubious Achievement Awards 
The end of the year brings with it all variety of awards for computing events and products from the past year. One of the most interesting set of awards this year are the Dubious Achievement Awards which include the CHICKEN LITTLE MEMORIAL JOURNALISM award, the I CAME, I SAW, I SUED award, and others.  If you need a bit of end of year tech humor it's work look.

On to the awards - http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991227/tc/compubug_11.html

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NOLA Regional Library System

Aye, cute skirt. Nice plaid. Saints, what legs! Oh, pardon me, sir! Great Scott! The lassie is a lad! Don't you make the same mistake we did. Get your Scotch, straight up, at Reflinks 942 - Encyclopedia of British History, 929 The Tartan Finder, the Official Tourism Site of Scotland 914, and get the scoop on border skirmishes, clan leaders, green countrysides and exactly what's under that kilt. And for the romantic, try a wee bit of Robby Burns at 821. He'll get the fires burrning fer ye!

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