And working for CCPL, the number on library in the nation ( rub : ) http://www.haplr-index.com/HAPLR2005AmericanLibraries.htm ) we take a very proactive appoach also. We try to stay current with the latest technologies and offer our patrons new things. We are currently involved with a project called Onecleveland that will light up wirelessly the entire county around cleveland with in the next few years. http://www.onecleveland.org/ Talk about a proactive project! We are also going to HP blades windows 2003 O2K3 servers and the new version of Metaframe XPS 4 early next year. Jim Kenzig Network Manager Cuyahoga County Public Library George Yobst <george.yobst@m> wrote: Education is kinda like Public Libraries. We use harddrive lockdown hardware or software like Deepfreeze or Centurion Guard. This makes all the difference after getting a computer the way you want it. -George On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:14:22 -0500, Andrew Shriner wrote: > Does anyone here (besides me) work in an educational/K-12 setting? > Namely, public education... > > My boss just sent an agenda out for a meeting, and the biggest part of > it is determining how to be proactive about a lot of things around the > district... while that's not a bad idea, I'm wondering how he's planning > on pulling that off, when every knowledgeable person in my department > has enough of a workload for three people. Going beyond that, I've > worked with most of the other school districts in our area, and none of > them appear to be proactive at all... and employees that I've spoken to > in other districts agree. >