Re: Computer Bank

[Lori Keenan <lkeenan@norby.latah.lib.id.us>]

The Latah County Library has expressed an interest to the City in
maintaining a community computer room at the 1912 building.  There are
grant funds available to help us do this, especially if we partner with
segments of the community.  This idea came out of the community-wide
retreat held last year and has been forwarded to the folks working on the
uses for the 1912 building.  Does anyone know whatever happened to this
idea?   Lori Keenan


At 01:14 PM 8/1/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>> Let me float an idea. If we had space, power, and net access, how many
>> people would be willing to kick in to buy machines for an open-to-all
>> computer lab? The machines I'm thinking of are the e4me.com 333id's or the
>> like. Each machine would cost about a grand with a NIC, monitor, and small
>> UPS. It could be run on a pay-per-ability basis or for free, whatever
>> trips the lifters. If we had volunteers to teach, classes in Works or Word
>> or whatever could be run.
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>plus a place to run it, someone to administer it, someone to maintain it,
plus power,
>internet costs, paper, disks, etc etc etc.. 
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>and just in case anyone thinks I'm just a nay sayer.. the University 
>has computer labs.. how about approaching them about non 
>students (or school district students) on the same (ability to pay) 
>basis? the infrastructure is already there. and some kind soul could 
>administer the "permits" so the U doesn't really have to do any extra 
>work
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