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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 255);"><b><u><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA596e424d-90fd-afb9-2eb6-3ca78285d003" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/vendor-news-roundup-december-2025-january-2026?utm_campaign=LJXpress&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=400722250&utm_content=400722250&utm_source=hs_email">Library
Journal Vendor News Roundup</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Microsoft</b> has created a new program offering Windows licenses and its standard Office software suite for free to all public access computers in public libraries, following “sustained advocacy by ULC [the Urban Libraries
Council], the Public Library Association, and major urban systems,” according to a ULC announcement. All libraries qualify, although the program applies only to public-access devices and does not include computers used primarily by library staff.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 255);"><b><u><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAda9e064b-9651-18e5-9ab9-98f0ed7cea44" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://nonprofits.tsi.microsoft.com/EN-US/contact-us-libraries/">Libraries
can apply for the program here</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which mentions at the bottom:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" name="_MailAutoSig">Darci Hanning, MLIS (she/her/hers)</a></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Public Library Consultant / CE Coordinator<br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">971-375-3491
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