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FYI -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:44 AM Subject: PAC HUG Hi all ... a few things about the Gates PAC HUG grant. Stacey's internship is over. Her last day was Wednesday .. just before Thanksgiving. There is a possibility that I will get some assistance soon .. perhaps as early as next Monday. In the meantime, please bear with me. I am managing Staying Connected and PAC HUG. They are both terribly time-consuming. Friday was a state holiday and I took off on Monday. This means that I have 5 days worth of email to catch up on. Many of the emails are specific questions about PAC HUG (and Staying Connected). To save me a bit of time, I thought I'd summarize some information. For TSLAC's purposes, we need ONLY a name and operating system for each computer that is inventoried. In reality, we only need to see the number of computers that they received via the original Gates grant. For example, if they received four computers and a server, then TSLAC will expect to see (at minimum) 5 computers on the inventory sheet. If there are less, then we will be contacting those libraries. If there are more, then we will not be contacting them. Some folks don't realize that the server should also be inventoried. It should. This "server" isn't a true server as we typically think of them. Gates thinks of them as a "computer". So, in the example I used above, if only 4 computers show up on their inventory, we'd need to know about the 5th one. Each library will be getting set funds for each computer. Until the entire inventory (across the state) is completed and analyzed, we will NOT know that amount per computer. But, we do know that it will an amount per computer. So, if it is determined that the amount is $900 per computer, then a library with four computers and a server would get $4500. They would use those funds to replace computers ... if they want to spec out a server, then they might not have sufficient funds to get all five computers. Eligible expenditures include hardware and software. There is NO software requirement beyond office productivity titles (such as Word/Excel) in this grant. So, they can spend the money all on hardware -- or in combination, if they choose. The libraries own the software on the original Gates computers -- that software can be removed from those older NT machines and moved to new equipment. Instructions to do this were created by Dale Musselman and are on the pacomputing.org website. I don't remember the exact location, but can provide it at a later date. I will do my best to find out which libraries have not yet logged in to do their inventory. I make no promises that I will get that list to you today -- but I'll try. My priority today is to respond to my various emails ... that could take most of the day. During that process, I may very well be in TechAtlas and do a sort. If I do, then I'll zip a list off to you at that time . . . I very much appreciate all of your help in this process. It could not have been done without all of you! Just before Stacey left, we had a 66% completion rate! I consider that a success! Now, all we have to do is get the rest! I have a few libraries that are asking for assistance in doing the inventory .. I may send the passwords/login information to you guys so that you can assist them. Otherwise, it may take me days to get to it . . . Thanks! Hope you each had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I know I did! Marilyn *********************************** Marilyn Johnson Manager, Continuing Education and Consulting Texas State Library and Archives Commission PO Box 12927 / 1201 Brazos St Austin, TX 78711 (v) 512 463-6627 or 800 252-9386 (Texas Only) (f) 512 463-8800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!" ~Anonymous~
