What Do You Do With Your Old Computers?

Here at NEFLIN we give them away to you, our members. But what does your library do with them? If you're looking for ideas, you should listen to the recording of yesterday's MaintainIT webinar, "Recycling and Refurbishing Old Computers."

This 60 minute webinar is based on the "Buying and Deploying Technology" chapter of the newest MaintainIT cookbook, The Joy of Computing: Planning for Success. Feel free to download the book. I'm listening to it as I write this and it's full of really useful ideas, definitely worth the hour. It features Jean Montgomery from the Upper Peninsula Region Library Cooperative in Michigan and Jim Lynch from TechSoup.

Here are some of the resources mentioned during the program:

• Library using Ubuntu
• Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers
• Hardware Recyclers
• End-of-life electronics recyclers
• 101 uses for AOL disks
• Electronics Takeback Campaign approved electronics recyclers
• Software to wipe the hard drive
• DBAN
• Killdisk
• Bart’s Nuke

Want to attend more webinars? You can register here:http://maintainitproject.org/events