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TechSoup - worth the effort for a small library?

Long set-up, question to follow.

Our IT person wanted some of the advantages of TechSoup for our tribal college. He found our tribal college was not a good fit for TechSoup. He thought the library might be able to benefit from the resource. So, now comes the dilemma.

As a tribal college library, our primary purpose is to serve as an academic library for the college. However, we also serve the village population as the public library. We seem to be recognized as an academic library (through IMLS?) and the TechSoup representative will not acknowledge we can be both. Webjunction recognizes us as a public library.

Thus, the $64K question is: Is it worth the effort to convince the TechSoup representative of our status?