[WEB4LIB] Tax form access

[Garwood, Steve]

Hi Tom,

I take the most popular forms...download them from the IRS website and keep
them on our server so that our patrons get quick access (waiting for the IRS
page in April sucks). They usually seem much more happy to print something
from the Web rather than having to photocopy something from a book (of
course we have the reproducibles too).

The URL we'll be using for 2001 is
http://www.camden.lib.nj.us/taxforms/2001/default.htm and this will be
linked from our homepage probably when we get the forms in print in the
library or when demand rises for them.

Of course the IRS will be sending us many many cases of forms, but we always
run out. Let me repeat...we ALWAYS run out. 

Hope this helps,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Edelblute [mailto:thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:15 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Tax form access


We are starting to enter a big discussion here about tax forms.  Our
copy machine vendor will be supply reproducible forms, but does not have
the current forms from the IRS yet.  With that, someone mentioned that
they are available on the Internet.  However, our computer lab gets busy
enough with public Internet traffic as it is.

What are other libraries doing about tax forms?  Are you just relying on
Internet access?  Are you holding out for reproducible forms?  Are you
doing something different?
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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas at anaheim.lib.ca.us