{"id":2285,"date":"2015-11-04T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:32:12","slug":"e-rate-whats-new-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/e-rate-whats-new-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"E-rate: What\u2019s New for 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big changes are coming again to E-rate, the federal program that provides discounts to assist schools and public libraries in the United States to obtain affordable Internet access and Connections. USAC has launched the E-Rate Productivity Center, EPC, for the 2016 Funding Year. This new online portal will be the main point of entry for all future E-rate interactions. With your organizational account you<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\"> will use <\/span><\/span>EPC to file forms, track your application st<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">atus, comm<\/span><\/span>unicate with USAC, and more.<\/p>\n<p>What does yo<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">ur library <\/span><\/span>need to know to use this new E-rate portal<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">? In this w<\/span><\/span>orkshop, Christa Burns, Nebras<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">ka\u2019s Stat<\/span><\/span>e E-rate Coordinator for Libraries, will fi<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">rst cover <\/span><\/span>the basics of the E-rate program and then show you how to access and use your account in EPC to submit your Funding Year 2016 E-rate application.<\/p>\n<p>Dates and locations:<\/p>\n<p>November 6 &#8211; Omaha Public Library, Abrahams Branch<\/p>\n<p>November 9 &#8211; Norfolk, Northeast Community College<\/p>\n<p>November 16 &#8211; Scottsbluff, Western Library System<\/p>\n<p>November 17 &#8211; Kearney Public Library<\/p>\n<p>November 19 &#8211; Lincoln, Nebraska Library Commission<\/p>\n<p>December 1 &#8211; Online, GoToWebinar<\/p>\n<p>To register for any of these &#8220;E-rate: What\u2019s New for 2016?&#8221; sessions, go to the Nebraska Library Commission&#8217;s Training &amp; Events Calendar and search for &#8216;e-rate 2016&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nlc.nebraska.gov\/calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http:\/\/nlc.nebraska.gov\/calendar\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big changes are coming again to E-rate, the federal program that provides discounts to assist schools and public libraries in the United States to obtain affordable Internet access and Connections. USAC has launched the E-Rate Productivity Center, EPC, for the 2016 Funding Year. This new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuing-educationlibrary-training","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sgtf-AR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/trls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}