FW: Cost of providing Internet Access

[Thomas Edelblute]

In my internal assessment, I can only tell you this.  Our CD-ROMs with
multi-user licenses is $41,000.  To get this same information on the
Internet would cost us $85,000.  However, things are not equal here.
PsycLit is an eight user license on our LAN whereas PsycInfo is a site
license based on enrollment.  Furthermore, half of our CD-ROMs are
quarterly updates instead of monthly which helps cut down the costs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Burt, David [mailto:DBurt at ci.oswego.or.us] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 9:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Cost of providing Internet Access


Does anyone have any figures on the cost of providing public Internet
access?

Specifically,

*The cost of ownership for a PC per year
*The cost per PC of Internet access (I know this varies widely)

*The total cost per public Internet PC

Thanks

David Burt, Information Technology Librarian
Lake Oswego Public Library, Lake Oswego, Oregon
e-mail: dburt at ci.oswego.or.us
phone: (503) 675-2537
fax: (503) 635-4171