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5 1/2 Things I Learned While Writing the Cookbooks (Part 2):

13 Apr 2009 - 9:00am | Chris Peters

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Lesson 2: Buying Computers for a Library is More Complicated than it Looks

When I need a computer, I pray to the budget gods, log onto a PC manufacturer’s website (e.g. Dell or HP) and configure a machine. It’s pretty easy and the computer arrives a week or two later.

The Biggest, Baddest Machines...

30 Jul 2008 - 5:01pm | Jennifer Nelson

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Jim Haprian, Technology Services Manager from the Medina County District Library in Ohio had some words of wisdom in his interview with Chris Peters about purchasing servers as well as public access computers. Jim’s attitude towards purchasing new computers is,

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