Using Webinar

Webinar is useful and the archival part is extremely helpful, because what I miss I can have repeated.

Just listened to an archived Web presentation from December 18, 2009, about Kansas Libraries and Kansas taxes for 2009. Laura DeBaun was the host.

While Andy Coutis and Carl York did a good job, they were focusing on 'how to fill our the forms', which we are not supposed to help with. This means that it was only mildly useful. At least I might recognize some of the forms, but in truth, we cannot as Librarians give tax advice. This means that what we really need to know is where to send a person who needs help. While the attitude was that it would be the near indigent or the elderly who would need help, I disagree. I think it will be the person who has resisted learning about computers, no matter their income or intelligence level. People who in the past have been able to to take the forms and the instructions and do it themselves but who have no computer savy. This should be a very interesting event.