<div dir="ltr">In the past EvCC has had a few hundred netbooks (and I don't think we had even 50 available at that point in Winter quarter - they are always 100% out) that were rentals ($20 a quarter). Since we've been online it's been a free loan. <div><br></div><div>We now have about 1000 Chromebooks, our existing 200ish netbooks (many of which are too old) and we're looking at buying more netbooks. Chromebooks don't meet all needs in our experience. I think we have about 200 hotspots.</div><div><br></div><div>Lynn</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 9:20 AM Guidry, Wade via LIBRARYDIR <<a href="mailto:librarydir@lists.ctc.edu">librarydir@lists.ctc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I mentioned this KUOW (Seattle NPR affiliate) story on Thursday’s Alma / Primo call last week.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The story highlights the increased need and provisioning of laptops to students at Everett Community College and elsewhere in higher ed.<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(700 new laptops is a lot of inventory! And not a minor investment)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/need-a-laptop-colleges-boost-loaner-programs-amid-pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.kuow.org/stories/need-a-laptop-colleges-boost-loaner-programs-amid-pandemic</a><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902073742/some-colleges-offering-free-laptops-for-students-as-courses-go-virtual" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2020/08/13/902073742/some-colleges-offering-free-laptops-for-students-as-courses-go-virtual</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I assume that ‘rentals’ in the pull quote below really means ‘loans’.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"A lot of people still felt laptops were a luxury as opposed to a must-have," says Tim Rager, who leads the Information Technology department at
Everett Community College. "Now we're realizing it's really a must have."<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The northwest Washington community college, like many schools, had long had a laptop loaner program, where students could check out a computer for a few hours, like a library book. They had
about 50 devices on hand.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">But when classes went virtual, they switched from short-term rentals to longer-term rentals. And they were inundated with requests.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"So all of a sudden, 'OK, wait! We've got to expand this,' " remembers Rager. Fifty laptops was not enough. So he and his team purchased 400 more. Rager thought that was enough. He was wrong.
"That initial four hundred were just gone. They were just gobbled up." <b>So they ordered another 700.</b><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wade Guidry<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:wadeg@bigbend.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">wadeg@bigbend.edu</span></a>
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