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Note from the Washington State Library: In order to participate in the Winter 2002 Washington State Databases Trial, each vendor was asked to address questions the Statewide Database Licensing Committee felt were most critical in order for library staff to evaluate products and vendors. Please contact the vendor's representative, listed below, for additional information on this product.
1. Describe the database product(s). If you want us to link to more than one product, provide a unique description for each product. Be sure we know what information belongs with each product. If there are special hardware or software needs, please make sure you include them in this description. When you provide a description of your product, please go beyond the typical advertising brochure text. We are hoping for a thoughtful, descriptive paragraph that will enable someone unfamiliar with your product to understand the nature and coverage of your product. The more concise the description, the better.
Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/) is "Webware," a software and Web Encyclopedia. It organizes the information available on the Web for K-12 education and provides access to the top 5 percent of Websites. As a software encyclopedia, it also ensures that all articles, lesson plans, projects, and activities that are included have been carefully reviewed by a senior education professional for quality and relevance.
The Awesome Library Webware Encyclopedia is a child-safe haven of over 18,000 Web sites for children, teens, parents, and teachers. A public library or a school library can use the Awesome Library to help protect children from online predators and comply with federal laws under CIPA and NCIPA. In short, the Awesome Library puts attractive and useful resources from the Web in front of children to help them gain maximum use of the Web.
Where appropriate, materials are organized by topic, grade level, and other criteria most useful for teachers and students. The Awesome Library contains links to articles, pictures, histories, biographies, lesson plans, worksheets, current events, and more.
For more information on the database or licensing, please see:
http://www.awesomelibrary.net/
2. Is remote access included for the subscription price? If there are additional charges or requirements in order to offer remote access, please describe. What methods of remote access are supported? If applicable, please discuss any methods or assistance you offer regarding remote access patron verification and authentication.
We do not have provisions for remote access.
3. What customer training is provided, and at what cost? Please include "freebies" such as Web-based tutorials, end-user documentation tents, cheat-sheets, etc.
Customer training has not been needed. We provide strong customer support.
4. What customer and technical support is provided, including hours of operation? In your reply, please include contact names (if applicable) or name of department, the phone numbers and e-mail addresses for your support services. If you have toll-free access to these support centers, please make sure they are available here.
Technical support is available at [email protected] M-F 10am to 10pm EST. The phone number is 1-727-942-2040.
5. Please describe the statistics you provide, and discuss whether your statistical reporting complies in part or in whole with the guidelines developed by the International Coalition of Library Consortia found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html
We do not provide statistics.
6. Describe your pricing structure or formula for the product. If there are additional costs for retrieving full text, describe the pricing for this service. (Note: This question means - we want to know what your list prices are and how you calculate your prices: Based on FTEs? On buildings? On a combination, or on something else?)
If you cannot provide a standard
price list that would enable each library to understand their cost to
subscribe, then for each product you must tell us the list price that
you would charge these hypothetical libraries.
a. Library A: A high school library with 750 students in grades 9-12
b. Library B: A public library that serves a population of 100,000 and
has two branches
c. Library C: A public library that serves a population of 20,000 and
has only one building, no branches
d. Library D: A community college library serving 5,000 full-time equivalent
students
e. Library E: A four-year academic library serving 5,000 full-time equivalent
students
f. Library F: A hospital library serving a hospital that employees 1,000
staff plus has 200 doctors attached to the hospital
The cost for the license is $10 per computer per month for up to 4 computers. For 5-9 computers it is $7.50 per month per computer and for 10 or more computers it is $5 per month per computer. Call us for prices for using more than 20 computers.
7. If a library subscribes to any of your products as a result of this trial, will their future subscription rates continue to reflect any savings or discount they may receive today?
They will be able to maintain the discount rate.
8. What is the minimum participation level (however you care to define it) that would be needed to allow participating libraries to receive a discount? What is the minimum discount for a group buy? How will you treat existing library customers with regard to a group buy?
The minimum number of licenses (computers using the program) for a discount is 5.
9. Please provide the name and contact information (toll-free telephone number, e-mail address, hours, etc.) for libraries to make further inquires. (Sales representatives for our area preferred.)
Please contact Jerry Adams at [email protected] 9am - 9pm EST. Phone number is 1-(503) 233-2784