[WEB4LIB] Re: Tax form access

[Andrew Mutch]

This is probably straying off list topic but we supplement our web links to the
state and federal tax forms with the forms on CD.  You can order the CD from the
IRS and I think it is free or very low cost. It's very helpful when the IRS site is
slow or for those obscure forms or publications that aren't available online or
would be a huge pain to download and print.  Like Bob, we have these available on
our database/CD-ROM workstations. We also leave the links on year-round as we
always seem to have people looking for forms after April 15th.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Robert Sullivan wrote:

> >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.
>
> We have some computers which are dedicated to our catalog and subscription
> databases.  However, there are some Web sites which we feel are of sufficient
> value to our patrons that we promote their use and do not force the patrons to
> compete for Internet PCs to use them.
>
> Given the benefits to staff of reduced demand for the reproducible forms - we
> charge the same for printing as we do for copying - having the links to
> assorted federal and state tax forms would definitely fall into that category.
> (We'll be adding FAFSA now that they're pushing online applications and cutting
> back on the paper copies.)
>
> Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli at sals.edu
> Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org