Conference Call - 1/10/2007

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This is what we agreed on:


Focus groups for State Librarians will be on Sunday from 9-11 and then from 11:30 - 1:30.


Nancy will draft the invitation and contact Gary Nichols to get it sent out. I JUST TALKED TO GARY AND HE SAID FINE TO SEND IT OUT THROUGH COSLA.


Rick will arrange for light food.


RSVPs will be sent to Nancy. I thought maybe 3 would be too many people. I think it should be one. Kathy can do it if you prefer. We will also issue the invitation again at the COSLA meeting.


We will basically use the questions that Nancy sent earlier.


Rick will talk to the Gates people this afternoon and find a time for us to meet on Thursday, January 18th.


We did NOT talk about the COSLA presentation. Rick, do you have a one pager on the project that we can hand out? We can finalize the presentation on Thursday the 18th.


Draft Invitation

PLEASE PROVIDE ANY REVISIONS ASAP. SHOULD I PUT THIS ON ALA/OITP LETTERHEAD? CAN I JUST GET THIS OFF OF THE ALA WEBSITE?


Dear COSLA Friends,


We would like to invite you to a Focus Group on Sunday, January 21st in Seattle, Washington to discuss highspeed internet connectivity for public libraries in your state. The focus groups are sponsored by the Office of Information and Technology Policy of the American Library Association and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


There are two Focus Groups, both on Sunday the 21st:

9:00am – 11:00 am

11:30am – 1:30 pm


The Focus Groups will be held in the Crown Plaza Hotel. The room will be under the name of Rick Weingarten and we will provide the room number to you at the COSLA meeting. We will provide refreshments.


As the questions below show, we are interested in how public libraries in your state get highspeed internet connectivity; how that is defined; what methods have been most successful; what barriers you encounter; etc. We hope you can come and if you would like to bring your technology consultant, that would be fine as well. IS THIS OK?


These focus groups are a follow-up to the survey you may have recently filled-out sent to you by Denise Davis at ALA. Your answers let us to more questions and we would like a more extensive conversation with you. We will be at the COSLA meeting on Friday to provide more information on this project.


We hope you can attend one of the focus groups. If you cannot and would like to meet with us at another time, please let us know.


To RSVP, please send an email to nancybolt@earthlink.net and let us know which time works best for you. Please note that we are also looking for reports or studies from states that address these issues. If you have any, please provide a link if it is online, bring a copy with you, or let us know how we might get a copy.


We look forward to seeing you at the COSLA meeting and at one of the Focus Groups.


Nancy Bolt

Nancy Bolt & Associates

9018 Ute Drive

Golden, CO 80403





1) What are the general problems and issues you face in getting high speed internet access to local public libraries?

2) How do you help libraries calculate how much high speed access they will need? Or how do they calculate this? Do you have a planning guide that helps local libraries make this decision?

3) How are libraries using high speed access or how do they want to use it if they had it or had more? What can’t they do that they want to do?

4) What role does e-rate plan in high speed internet access for public libraries?

5) What are the most successful methods that libraries have connected to high speed internet access in your state? (Type of connectivity; coalitions; unique configurations, etc.)

6) Are there any studies in your state that would be helpful?

7) If we visited your state, who should we talk to (not names but titles)?

8) If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were going to try and help in this arena, what could they do?

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