<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Leah I am pretty sure all public libraries are eligible for educational pricing from Microsoft for all our computers. We get that for MCL but it is our County IT purchasing folks that handle it. There might be a state contract you can buy off of that has educational pricing. Not sure. I can probably find out next week.</div><div><br></div><div>Cindy<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 30, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Leah Griffith <<a href="mailto:leah.griffith@newbergoregon.gov">leah.griffith@newbergoregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m needing to purchase a number of MS Office suites for library staff computers. I thought I remembered that there were discount options for these purchases. I doubled checked on TechSoup and they only provide MS Office for
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am I just not remembering correctly and the city IT guys with their government MS Office deal is the best, or can libraries get a better deal?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Leah M. Griffith </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Newberg Public Library 503-537-1256 </p>
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