New Business Telecommunications. A copy of the reQuest Fact Sheet regarding a reQuest Telecommunication Cost Share Proposal had been distributed prior to the meeting. If a library desires more bandwidth, the library will be responsible for additional costs. Accordingly, reQuest would pay for all installation and ongoing costs for the connection from the networks' common host site to CSU, and for Internet costs. Subsidies may be decreased or eliminated in future years depending on funding.
Libraries needing only dial-up service can purchase Internet services at discounted price.
Libraries with existing frame relay would not be funded in the first two years of the project. The Board Sharon Brettschneider reported that she had been corresponding with Joe Cadieux regarding an article he is writing for Connecticut Libraries on reQuest and the Partnership of Connecticut Libraries. The next meeting will be on October 7th at the Avon Public Library.