[OPLINTECH] MS Office

[Joe]

 From what I recall from our last purchase, MS Office for the public was 
$30 per seat through TechSoup.
What limitations are you referring to with techsoup?  I know you can't 
use the software on staff computers, but if you're moving them to google 
docs or something similar, that shouldn't be an issue.

We upgraded the public computers a little more than a year ago to 
Windows 7, and when we did so upgraded to MS Office 2013 as well. I 
think we maybe didn't have to purchase as many seats of Windows 7 or 
Office '13 because of software assurance from our previous Techsoup 
purchases.  I'd probably have moved the public to one of the quality 
free offerings that were mentioned by others (WPS Office or LibreOffice) 
if I'd moved the public over to Linux, like I considered.

Have a good day.

Joe

Joseph Knueven
Director
Germantown Public Library
51 N. Plum St.
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001
knuevejo at oplin.org

On 9/29/2014 10:09 AM, Mindy Holmes wrote:
> Wow! With the soaring pricing of Microsoft licensing, I am curious 
> what other libraries are doing on the MS Office front.  I am 
> particularly interested in the patron aspect.  I don't think it will 
> be terribly difficult to migrate staff over to something else (Google 
> docs, MS 365, etc.), but am not sure how that would be on the patron 
> side.  I do go through TechSoup to get the steep discounts but there 
> are limitations there too.
>
> Thanks,
> Mindy Holmes
> Mason Public Library
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