RESOUR> WED. FCC DECISION BROADCAST ON INTERNET

[Gleason Sackman <gleason@RRNET.COM>]

Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 16:48:03 -0400
From: ALAWASH E-MAIL (ALAWASH E-MAIL) <ALAWASH@ALAWASH.ORG>
To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <ala-wo@ala1.ala.org>
Subject: ALAWON v6, n31: WED. FCC DECISION BROADCAST ON INTERNET

=================================================================
ALAWON                                        Volume 6, Number 31
ISSN 1069-7799                                        May 6, 1997

     American Library Association Washington Office Newsline

In this issue: (72 lines)

FCC DECISION ON DISCOUNTS FOR LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS TO BE BROADCAST ON THE
INTERNET
_________________________________________________________________

      FCC DECISION ON DISCOUNTS FOR LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS
                TO BE BROADCAST ON THE INTERNET

ALA is eagerly expecting a decision tomorrow from the Federal
Communications Commission on discounted telecommunication rates
for libraries and schools.

This final rulemaking is in response to the Telecommunications
Act of 1996 and the Snowe-Rockefeller Amendment which designated
libraries and schools as universal providers eligible for such
discounts on telecommunications rates.  The FCC is expected to
announce how large the discounts will be and to what services
they will apply.

On Wednesday, May 7 at 9:30 a.m. ET the open meeting of the FCC
will be broadcast on the Internet by Democracy.Net, a project of
the Center for Democracy and Technology and Voters
Telecommunications Watch.  A transcript, live audio and still
pictures will be available.  The address for Democracy.Net is:

http://www.democracy.net

RealAudio software, required for the audio portion of the
broadcast, is available free of charge from Progressive Networks at:

http://www.realaudio.com/products/player/

For updated information on the FCC's education-related policies
and initiatives, visit the following sources:

http://www.ala.org/oitp/univserv.html -- ALA's Universal Service Page
http://www.fcc.gov/learnnet/ -- FCC's LearnNet
http://www.itc.org/edlinc/discounts -- Education and Library
Networks Coalition, of which ALA is a member

ALA will provide further analysis of the FCC decision as soon as
details become available.
_________________________________________________________________

ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library
Association Washington Office.  To subscribe, send the message:
subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc
@ala.org.  ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon.
Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org.

ALA Washington Office                            202.628.8410 (V)
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403                 202.628.8419 (F)
Washington, DC 20004-1701                        800.941.8478 (V)

Lynne E. Bradley, Editor                        <leb@alawash.org>
Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor  <alawash@alawash.org>

Contributors:                                    Andrew Magpantay
                                                  Aleck Johnson

All materials subject to copyright by the American Library
Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial
purposes with appropriate credits.
=================================================================