[OPLINTECH] Getting educational status from Microsoft

[Patricia Dollisch]

We got approved for educational status.  I'm still learning to wrestle with Teams.  I had a big go around with them because they couldn't understand that we are not a non-profit and that we are government.  I think being a school board library might have helped us.


Patricia Dollisch
Director, Perry Cook Memorial Public Library
7406 CR 242
Mount Gilead, Ohio 43338
419-362-7181
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I have been trying unsuccessfully to get Microsoft to approve our library for educational status. We’ve been approved for nonprofit, but our request for educational status has been pending since April. I called Microsoft support and was told public libraries are nonprofit and not educational and yet both Techsoup and other reliable sources have told me that public libraries have qualified for educational status and that Microsoft itself decided to make the change to educational status for all public libraries.



Any advice on how to proceed?



Amy Deuble

Marion Public Library

Marion, Ohio

adeuble at marionlibrary.org<mailto:adeuble at marionlibrary.org>

740-383-9722
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