The FCC has made some changes to the e-rate program to prohibit schools from buying computers cheaply and selling them to wealthier schools to make a profit. You can read about it on their website but you’ll need Word or Acrobat.
Category: ‘puters
cartoon
Do you think you’d really like it if your library were more like Amazon.com?[thanks rus]
technolibraries
Those smarties at MIT are finding ways to share music without either breaking the law or paying through the nose for individual copies of all the music. The secret? Cable TV. Meet LAMP the Libraries Access to Music Project. [nyt, thanks lisa]
two days in the life
I have refrained from mentioning anything about the Internet being up and down at our library these past two days, or how little fun it was. However, I refer you to the comedy gold of Kudzu and Cissus and their entertaining weblog He Said She Said. [lisnews]