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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333">I wanted to forward this message from ALA’s Office of Technology Policy to you all. There are a lot of discussions lately on the future of the eRate program with
the FCC. Please email Marijke Visser at <a href="mailto:mvisser@alawash.org"><b><span style="color:#615B61;text-decoration:none">mvisser@alawash.org</span></b></a> or Larra Clark at
<a href="mailto:lclark@alawash.org"><b><span style="color:#615B61;text-decoration:none">lclark@alawash.org</span></b></a> with responses:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some of you may have begun to hear the words “E-rate 2.0” and wondered what that might mean for libraries. Maybe you read the
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/technology/fund-that-subsidizes-internet-for-schools-should-expand-a-senator-says.html?_r=2&">
<b><span style="color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none">New York Times story</span></b></a> that followed the Senate Commerce Committee’s FCC oversight hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, the writing is
<i>more</i> than on the wall, and ALA is in active conversations with FCC staff – who are encouraging us to tell them what is most important to libraries and what most needs to change in the e-rate program. NOW (this week) is the time! Even though they can’t
confirm that a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is in the offing, one was projected last year and never arrived as other reforms were made in the Universal Service Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We need your help.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> The program brings millions of
dollars to public libraries each year—dollars that support telecommunications and information services critical to library service today. We need to communicate the value e-rate brings to libraries – and what we anticipate our future needs to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here are five jumping off points to get the conversation started:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tell us one (or more!) “before” and “after” e-rate story. What did e-rate enable that you wouldn’t have been able to accomplish without
this program? One library director, for instance, described how the library had to upgrade its bandwidth before it could effectively offer interactive online tutoring to students through the library. In another case, the library was blocking high-bandwidth
websites because their connection was inadequate to support multiple users with multiple applications during peak after-school hours. Other city agencies on the shared municipal line were losing Internet access as library users flooded the shared connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How would life in your library be different WITHOUT e-rate? No streaming media? No videoconferencing? No wireless access? One library
that increased bandwidth from 40Mbps to 100Mbps put it this way: “Because we get 80 percent E-rate discount, coupled with the new (citywide) contract, we think we can afford to do it. We couldn’t keep the doors open without E-rate. It’s so vital and important
to us. Altogether it will cost $102,000 next year with E-rate, but would have been $600,000 without E-rate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What do you see on the horizon for the library and its Internet-enabled services that will demand increased bandwidth and capacity?
A new digital media lab with a need for upload speeds to be just as good as download speeds? Supporting library user access to electronic health records? Who will most benefit from these services (teens, unemployed, job-seekers, other city/county agencies,
community partners)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Given where libraries are today and where they are headed in the next 5-10 years, let’s think into the future. If you could design
an E-rate program for 2015 and beyond where would you start? What are the most important services that you would need to support? Would you keep anything from the current program?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tell us one (or more!) example of how e-rate supported Internet connectivity has supported K12 student learning and achievement.
Online homework help? How about college-age and adult learners? Online GED prep? Distance learning?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The clock is ticking, and we are reaching out and doing our own research on all fronts. One FCC staffer put it this way: Tell us your “State of the Union” story.
You know, the one where the person is sitting next to the First Lady, and the President is telling how a federal program helped – or how a federal program is needed to make life better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:3.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#333333">Again, please email
<a href="mailto:mvisser@alawash.org"><b><span style="color:#615B61;text-decoration:none">mvisser@alawash.org</span></b></a> or
<a href="mailto:lclark@alawash.org"><b><span style="color:#615B61;text-decoration:none">lclark@alawash.org</span></b></a> with responses. If emailing, please use the subject line: “Erate2.0.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you and take care,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Columbus, OH 43201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:black">Tel: 614-466-1710<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://library.ohio.gov/state-librarian/share-your-story"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">http://library.ohio.gov/state-librarian/share-your-story</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62"><br>
Tell us how a State Library service or resource helped you or your library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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