================================================================= ALAWON Volume 6, Number 112 ISSN 1069-7799 December 12, 1997 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline In this issue: (54 lines) TELECOM DISCOUNT APPLICATION FORMS RELEASED BY THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES CORPORATION _________________________________________________________________ TELECOM DISCOUNT APPLICATION FORMS RELEASED BY THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES CORPORATION The latest information from the Schools and Libraries Corporation is as follows: --Beginning Thursday, December 11, 60,000 applications for the program were mailed out by the Schools and Libraries Corporation, the non-profit organization established by the Federal Communications Commission to administer the universal service program. --The SLC expects to make the Forms 470 and 471 and their accompanying pages of instructions available the week of December 15. The forms will be available on the National Exchange Carrier Association Web site at www.neca.org. --The SLC has established a toll-free number (888/203-8100) to respond and provide more information. The hotline was activated Thursday, December 11. ALAWON will bring you more information on this issue as it becomes available. _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc @ala.org. To unsubscribe, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/ washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org. ALA Washington Office 202.628.8410 (V) 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403 202.628.8419 (F) Washington, DC 20004-1701 800.941.8478 (V) Lynne E. Bradley, Editor Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor Contributors: Carol C. Henderson All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. =================================================================