US:PA-3: Can we hear from the PUC?
Can we hear from the PUC?
Barbara W. Cole (bwc@unix1.stlib.state.pa.us)
Wed, 01 Oct 1997 15:02:06 -0700
Laurie Maak, one of the seminar's facilitators, asked for suggestions for
this seminar. I would like the seminar to start to include some definite
instructions for libraries and schools.
I would like the seminar to provide answers from the PUC or other experts to
some of the knottier questions--for example:
How do schools and libraries aggregate?
Is there, in fact, disincentive to aggregate with an ineligible agency? Does
this disincentive apply to aggregating with local governments? Does it apply
to aggregating with academic libraries?
What special libraries are eligible? State institution libraries?
Are county law libraries eligible?
How are library systems to calculate discounts? Using an unweighted average?
How is such an "unweighted average" calculated? How is this different from
the weighted average that schools and I.U.'s are supposed to use?
Can a library system submit a centralized request for a centrally operated
automated system, while system member libraries submit their own individual
requests for their own phone service and their own local area networks?
Can one library submit several requests--for example, one for installation of
a LAN, one for plain old telephone service, and one for Internet service? (It
is quite likely that one service provider will not bid on all three of these
services.) Or are the schools and libraries supposed to submit one request,
that is, one application form covering everything and then sign a different
contracts with various providers who want to provide only part of what is
needed?
I was hoping for more than discussion. Anyone out there with answers?
--
Barbara W. Cole
Library Development Office
Commonwealth Libraries
P.O. Box 1601, Harrisburg, PA 17105-1601
Voice: 717-783-5722
Fax: 717-783-5723
Email: bwc@stlib.state.pa.us