TECH: LMC computers' requirements

[Judy Stewman <STEWMANJ@DQHS.DMSC.K12.AR.US>]

I'm sure this has been discussed here before, but I've been searching
the Archives this afternoon and can't find exactly what I need.
After years of begging and pleading for some updated technology, I
had a call from my superintendent called afternoon, and he told me to
get him a requisition for 10 or 12 computers, telling him exactly
what I want, and a diagram of the library where I want them put.
WHOA!!! I am amazed! I have ONE Internet computer in the library now
and a small one in my library which does only email. The library is
automated with a circulation computer and a computer catalog. We have
been trying to run CD-ROM's on some old computers which I find very
trying even with added memory.
     The purpose of these added computers would be for teachers to
bring in their classes to use the Internet in their research. I don't
want to run a computer lab here...

Please help me make some good recommendations here without breaking
the bank unnecessarily. (Our administration is VERY frugal and has
tried to make do with used computers in the past, a practice I have
long complained about.)

SO...What brand with what requirements? How many printers minumum? In
rows or circular banks? Etc., Etc., Etc...
My library is a long rectangular room with shelves around three walls
and down the middle (freestanding in middle). I will happily weed and
move shelving to make room.

If you have time to make any suggestions, I will certainly appreciate
it. Thanks...Judy


Judy Stewman,Librarian
De Queen High School
De Queen, Arkansas 71832

stewmanj@dqhs.dmsc.k12.ar.us

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