FRANK BOCEK, Business Manager
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FRANK BOCEK, Business Manager
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If you haven’t already started, now is the time to begin the application process for next year’s PY5 funding.
The first step is to file a Form 470 describing the types of services needed. Eleven Form 470 tips, plus suggested language for broadly describing service requirements, can be found on our Web site: http://www.e-ratecentral.com/Form_470_Tipsv2.htm
Please check the following carefully:1.Make sure that the funding year is specified as July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. A few Form 470s filed online earlier this summer referenced an earlier funding year (such as the current 2001-2002 year).2.If filing online, be sure to print out the certification page, sign it, and mail the original to the SLD.The filing window for the Form 471 should be announced shortly. Our best guess is that the window will run from November 5th through January 17, 2002. Remember that you cannot select new service suppliers or file a Form 471 until the requisite Form 470 has been posted on the SLD’s Web site for at least 28 days.
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WARREN EDDY, Library Director, Cortland Free Library
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This 837 page book, as the foreword by Gilbert T. Vincent, president of the NYS Historical Association explains, is “a completely new history of New York”. It is intended to supersede David Ellis’ Short History of New York State, originally published in 1957 and owned by close to half of the System's libraries.Illustrations, and many are in color, include a black-and-white of “the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center”.Gross price is $40, but this title, as did the Ellis title 40+ years ago, merits purchase by the state’s libraries.Our copy, which will circulate, is being purchased through use of a special fund dedicated to purchase of quality nonfiction.